Baklawa Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 lb Phyllo

  room temperature
• 1 cup Butter

  melted
• 1½ cups Walnuts

  chopped
• 1½ cups Pistachios

  shelled and chopped
• ¼ cup Pistachios

  shelled, chopped, for the topping
• ¾ cup Powdered Sugar
• 1½ cups Sugar
• ¾ cup Water
• 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
• 2 tsp Rose Water
• 2 tsp Orange Blossom Water

Instructions

• 1 Place walnuts and pistachios into a food processor and process until nuts are
  well chopped. Pour into a bowl and add powdered sugar, and stir well. Melt
  butter.
• 2 Preheat oven to 375ºF (190ºC). Place a sheet of phyllo in a buttered 13X9 pan.
• 3 Butter phyllo sheet. Once buttered completely place another sheet of phyllo on
  top and repeat buttering process. Continue until you have used half the sheets
  of dough.
• 4 Pour nut mixture into pan and make an even layer. Place a sheet of phyllo dough
  over nut mixture.
• 5 Butter as before alternating with sheets of phyllo. Use up the rest of the
  sheets of dough.
• 6 Using a sharp knife, score top layers of phyllo (into diamond shapes) that sit
  on top of the nut mixture.
• 7 Bake for about 30 minutes or until golden brown.
• 8 While baklava cooks make the simple syrup.
• 9 Add sugar, water, rose water, orange blossom water and lemon juice, to a cooking
  pot.
• 10 Bring to a boil.
• 11 Whisk until sugar has dissolved completely. Remove from heat.
• 12 Remove baklawa from the oven and cover evenly with simple syrup.
• 13 Cut through all layers of phyllo, remove baklava and serve.

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