Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Baklava

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Take 150 Grams Walnuts
2. Get 100 Grams Almonds , peeled
3. Get 75 Grams Pistachio
4. Make ready 200 Grams Sugar
5. Get 0.5 Teaspoon Cinnamon Ground
6. Take 250 Grams Butter
7. Get 500 Grams Fillo Sheets
8. Prepare 125 Millilitres Honey
9. Prepare 150 Millilitres Water
10. Take 1 Lemon

Instructions to make Baklava:

1. Coarsely grind or chop the walnuts, almonds and pistachio nuts.
2. Mix the walnuts, almonds, 50g of the pistachio nuts, the cinnamon and 4 tbsp. of sugar.
3. Melt the butter in a pan.
4. Cut the fillo leaves to the size of your baking pan by stacking them on top of each other, putting the pan on top of them and cutting around it with a sharp knife.
5. Butter the baking pan, add 1/4th of the fillo leaves one by one, basting each one generously with the melted butter. Add 1/3rd of the nut mixture on top of it.
6. Continue making layers with another 1/4th of the fillo leaves, followed by 1/3rd of the nut mixture and so on. The top layer will thus be fillo leaves.
7. Cut the finished "layer cake" into rhomboid shapes using a sharp knife.
8. Bake at 200C for approximately 25 minutes or until gold brown.
9. While the baklava is in the oven, gently heat the honey, the water and the remaining sugar until you obtain a thick syrup. Add a dash of lemon juice and some lemon zests.
10. Let the syrup cool down a little. Take the baklava out of the oven and let it stand for 5 to 10 minutes.
11. Slowly pour the syrup over the baklava. Decorate with the remaining pistachio nuts and let stand to cool down completely.

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