Recipe: Yummy Baklava

Baklava.

You can cook Baklava using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Baklava

1. You need 400 gms of chopped nuts.
2. You need 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
3. Prepare 16 ounce of package phyllo dough.
4. You need 1 cup of melted butter.
5. It's 1 cup of white sugar.
6. Prepare 1 cup of water.
7. You need 1/2 cup of honey.
8. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
9. It's 1 tsp of grated lemon zest.

Baklava step by step

1. Pre heat the oven at 108˚C..
2. Trim filo pastry sheets according to the tray..
3. Grease an aluminum tray with butter and place 2-3 pastry sheets on it..
4. Apply butter over the filo pastry and repeat the process till you complete layering 10 sheets..
5. Sprinkle the walnuts over it and drizzle butter. Place 2-3 more filo pastry sheets over it and brush butter on top and repeat till process till you complete layering another 10 sheet..
6. Sprinkle almonds and repeat the same process with pistachios till all the sheets are used up and the tray is full..
7. Cut into diamonds and bake in a preheated oven at 180 for 25 – 30 minutes..
8. Heat a deep nonstick pan. Add sugar and 1 cup water and the juice of half a lemon..
9. Stir till sugar dissolves and cook till it thickens..
10. Pour the sugar syrup over the baked filo sheet and let it rest for 5 -7 minutes..
11. Serve..