Baklava
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Prep45 min
Cook50 min
Total95 min
Layered filo and walnuts baked until crisp, then flooded with cold lemon syrup while still hot so it drinks it in.
Ingredients
Serves:20
Ingredients
- 500 g filo pastry sheets
- 400 g walnuts, chopped
- 250 g butter, melted
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 500 g sugar
- 400 ml water
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp honey
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidence332kcal · per serving
3.5g
Protein
31.3g
Carbs
23.2g
Fat
Recipe total: 6641 kcal · P 70.9g · C 626g · F 464.2g
Estimated from 8 of 8 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Make the syrup first: simmer the sugar, water, lemon juice and honey for 10 minutes, then cool completely. Cold syrup on hot pastry is the whole trick.
- 2Heat the oven to 170°C. Butter a deep baking tin.
- 3Layer 8 filo sheets in the tin, brushing each with melted butter.
- 4Mix the walnuts with the cinnamon and spread a third over the pastry.
- 5Add 4 buttered sheets, another third of the nuts, and repeat, finishing with 8 buttered sheets on top.
- 6Cut the baklava into diamonds all the way through before baking — you cannot cut it neatly afterwards.
- 7Bake 50 minutes until deep golden. Pour the cold syrup evenly over the hot baklava and leave at least 6 hours, uncovered, before serving.
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Questions and answers
How long does Baklava take to make?
About 95 minutes: 45 min prep and 50 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Baklava?
8 ingredients: filo pastry sheets, walnuts, butter, ground cinnamon, sugar, water, lemon juice, honey.
How many servings does this Baklava recipe make?
20 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Baklava?
About 332 kcal, with 3.5 g protein, 31.3 g carbohydrate and 23.2 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
What cuisine is Baklava?
Baklava comes from Bulgarian cuisine.
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