Recipe of Speedy Baklava

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baklava using 8 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Get 1 pounch chopped nuts
2. Take 1 tsp ground cinnamon
3. Take 1 package phyllo sheets
4. Take 1 cup melted butter
5. Make ready 1 cup white sugar
6. Make ready 1/2 cup honey
7. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla essence
8. Get 1 tsp grated lemon zest

Steps to make Baklava:

1. Preheat oven at 180°c
2. Butter a rectangular baking dish in which phyllo sheets cab fit easily
3. Toss together cinnamon and nuts
4. Unroll phyllo and divide whole stacks into two portion i.e if there are 20 sheets then divide it into 10-10
5. Then cover these sheets with samp cloth to maintain moisture and avoid from drying out
6. Place two phyllo sheets in the prepared dish bottom and butter them generously
7. Sprinkle 2-3tbsp of nut mixture on that
8. Then repeart the layer of two phyllo sheets on that and then again butter it and place nuts on that and repeat same procedure untill all material gets finished and the top layer should be of phyllo only i.e no nuts on top
9. Now using a knife cut baklava into four or five long rows nad nine to 11 times diagonally to make 36-55 diamond shapes, i.e this process totally depends on the dish size, it might be less or it might be more
10. Bake it in preheated oven until golden brownand crisp for 30minutes
11. While it's baking combine sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in honey vanilla essence and lemon zest and aimmer it for another 20 minutes
12. Remove baklava from oven and immediately put that syrup over it by spoon
13. Let it cool before serving.

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