Recipe: Delicious Homemade Baklava

Homemade Baklava.

You can have Homemade Baklava using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Homemade Baklava

1. Prepare of strudel dough or 16 layers phyllo pastry.
2. Prepare of unsalted butter, melted.
3. Prepare of pecans.
4. It's of macadamia.
5. Prepare of cinnamon, ground.
6. It's of Syrup.
7. You need of sugar.
8. You need of water.
9. You need of lemon juice.
10. Prepare of honey.

Homemade Baklava step by step

1. In a pot add the syrup ingredients which is sugar, water, lemon juice and honey. Heat until sugar is dissolved. Turn off heat and let cool down..
2. Chop nuts (pecans and macadamia) finely and mix with ground cinnamon.
3. Preheat oven to 160°C. In a oven proof dish spread a layer of unsalted butter, lay a sheet of strudel or phylly pastry, spread butter again. Do this for 5 layers. Add a layer of nut mixture (third of the nut mixture).
4. Add 3 layers of strudel or phyllo pastry with butter between each layer. Add another layer of nut mixture. Repeat one more time..
5. Last layer should be like first layer with 5 strudel or phyllo pastry sheets. Butter between each layer..
6. Cut into squares right to the bottom of the dish..
7. Bake in 160°C oven for 1 hour 15 minutes or until top layer is golden brown..
8. Remove from oven, let cool slightly. Pour syrup over baklava..
9. Enjoy with a cup of tea!.