How to Cook Delicious Baklava

Baklava.

You can have Baklava using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Baklava

1. You need 1 kg of phyllo pastry, preferrably the finest you can get..
2. It's 1/2 kg of walnuts, coarsely chopped.
3. Prepare 1/2 kg of raw almonds, coarsely chopped.
4. Prepare 3 tbsp of finely ground cinnamon.
5. It's 1 tbsp of finely ground cloves.
6. It's 600 of g, approximately, fresh butter, melted.
7. You need of For the syrup.
8. It's 6 cups of sugar.
9. You need 500 ml of glucose, or, 500 ml honey.
10. It's 1 l of water.
11. It's of the rind of two lemons, and two cinnamon sticks.

Baklava instructions

1. In a bowl, combine the ingredients for the filling, that is, the nuts and the spices.  Select an ovenproof dish according to the dimensions of your phyllo sheets, and grease bottom and sides well with melted butter.  Layer the first 5 phyllo sheets to form the base.  Each sheet must be brushed well, but lightly, with melted butter, before layering the next phyllo sheet on top of it.  With a spoon, sprinkle over the whole surface of the phyllo some of the filling mixture.  Continue layering each sheet of phyllo, brushing it with butter and sprinkling with nuts, until you have 4-5 sheets left..
2. Finish off the baklava by layering the last 4-5 sheets. With a sharp knife, score through the top layers of the baklava, either in a diamond grid, or square portions..
3. Pour more melted butter over the surface of the baklava, and sprinkle it well with cold water.  Bake in a preheated oven, at 180 degrees, for approximately 50 minutes, until golden..
4. Let the ingredients for the syrup come to boil, and cook for 5 minutes.  As soon as the baklava is done and taken out of the oven, pour the hot syrup over, spoon by spoon, making sure the whole baklava is well saturated.  Let stand to allow the syrup to be absorbed, but do not cover, to ensure the baklava remains crispy..