Baklava URU
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[edit] Description
[edit] Ingredients
- 5 eggs
- 500 g of frozen (or fresh) spinach
- 2 frozen sheets of puff pastry
- 1 Onion
- 3 garlic cloves (you can use more if you really love garlic)
- olive oil (Spanish of course)
- 4 or 5 slices of Cheddar Cheese
- bread crumbs
[edit] Directions
- Grease hands with a little shortening and knead.
- Make 10 small balls and let stand in bowl for one hour covered with damp cloth.
- Take five balls and roll each ball to diameter of 5 inches.
- Lightly cover top of each one with cornstarch and place on top of each other.
- Take stack of 5 and roll out until paper thin - diameter at least 36 inches.
- While rolling, occasionally sprinkle cornstarch between layers to prevent sticking.
- Carefully fold each layer and set aside covering with dry cloth to prevent drying.
- Repeat procedure with remaining 5 balls.
- Five pieces of 36" rolled out dough will be the bottom half and the remaining five pieces will be the top half.
- The walnut stuffing will be placed in the center.
- Pan: 8"x12" Take 2 pieces of rolled out dough from first set of five and evenly place over pan and cut to exact size of pan. Set aside.
- These will be used for final layers before placing walnut mixture.
- Repeat procedure with second set of five and set aside tray size pieces for top finishing layers Grease bottom of pan with some of the melted shortening.
- Carefully tear remaining pieces of first set to approximately 4"x6" pieces and arrange in tray.
- There will be a little overlapping, but try to arrange evenly.
- For every 2 layers sprinkle melted shortening.
- When all pieces are used from first set, arrange the 2 previously cut tray size pieces.
- Cover with walnut mixture.
- Repeat same procedure with second set of rolled out dough for top half ending with the 2 tray size pieces.
- Finish remaining melted shortening by generously sprinkling top layer with shortening.
- Cut into diamond pieces or in squares.
- Bake in 425F oven until golden pink. Drain shortening.
- Cut through layers again to separate squares.
- Gently add sugar syrup while warm.
