Recipe: Delicious Homemade Baklava

Homemade Baklava.

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

Ingredients of Homemade Baklava

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

Homemade Baklava instructions

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!.