Recipe: Perfect Baklava

Baklava.

You can have Baklava using 8 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Baklava

1. It's 1 of pounch chopped nuts.
2. You need 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
3. It's 1 package of phyllo sheets.
4. Prepare 1 cup of melted butter.
5. You need 1 cup of white sugar.
6. Prepare 1/2 cup of honey.
7. You need 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
8. You need 1 tsp of grated lemon zest.

Baklava step by step

1. Preheat oven at 180°c.
2. Butter a rectangular baking dish in which phyllo sheets cab fit easily.
3. Toss together cinnamon and nuts.
4. Unroll phyllo and divide whole stacks into two portion i.e if there are 20 sheets then divide it into 10-10.
5. Then cover these sheets with samp cloth to maintain moisture and avoid from drying out.
6. Place two phyllo sheets in the prepared dish bottom and butter them generously.
7. Sprinkle 2-3tbsp of nut mixture on that.
8. Then repeart the layer of two phyllo sheets on that and then again butter it and place nuts on that and repeat same procedure untill all material gets finished and the top layer should be of phyllo only i.e no nuts on top.
9. Now using a knife cut baklava into four or five long rows nad nine to 11 times diagonally to make 36-55 diamond shapes, i.e this process totally depends on the dish size, it might be less or it might be more.
10. Bake it in preheated oven until golden brownand crisp for 30minutes.
11. While it's baking combine sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in honey vanilla essence and lemon zest and aimmer it for another 20 minutes.
12. Remove baklava from oven and immediately put that syrup over it by spoon.
13. Let it cool before serving..