Description[]
Great tasty Arabic baklava.
Ingredients[]
- 4 cups finely chopped walnuts and pistachios
- 2 cups butter or Crisco or ghee
- 1 cup sugar
- 18 sheets of phyllo dough
Sugar syrup[]
- 2½ cups sugar
- 1½ cups water
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Directions[]
Sugar syrup[]
- In a pan put the water and sugar and heat until boiling.
- Add the lemon and leave in for another 15 minutes until the syrup starts to thicken
- Set aside to cool.
Baklava[]
- Preheat oven to 325 °F.
- Brush the surface of the baking tray ( square or rectangular shape 24 x40 cm) with oil.
- Melt the butter or the ghee.
- Put on layer of dough in the baking tray and brush it with the butter; repeat 6 times.
- On the side mix the walnuts and pistachios with the sugar
- Spread the walnut mix evenly on top of the dough.
- Put another layer of dough on top of the nuts and brush it with butter.
- Repeat 12 times.
- Wet your fingers with water and gently wipe the last dough.
- Brush the last dough with butter generously.
- Cut the baklava into small squares.
- Put the baklava in the oven.
- Bake at 325 °F for about half an hour then at 450 °F for the last 5-10 minutes until it turns golden and crunchy.
- Take the baklava out of the oven and immediately pour the cooled sugar syrup on it.
- Serve at room temperature.