Homemade Baklava

Name: Homemade Baklava
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 250 g strudel dough or 16 layers phyllo pastry; 125 g unsalted butter, melted; 1/2 cup pecans; 1/2 cup macadamia; 2 teaspoons cinnamon, ground; 1 cup sugar; 3/4 cups water; 2 tablespoons lemon juice; 1/2 honey

Shandré Goss-Ross @shandre

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

This was my first attempt on a baklava 😁 it tastes really yummy! Made with my homemade strudel dough

Shandré Goss-Ross @shandre

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

This was my first attempt on a baklava 😁 it tastes really yummy! Made with my homemade strudel dough

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Ingredients

250 gstrudel dough or 16 layers phyllo pastry
125 gunsalted butter, melted
1/2 cuppecans
1/2 cupmacadamia
2 teaspoonscinnamon, ground
Syrup
1 cupsugar
3/4 cupswater
2 tablespoonslemon juice
1/2honey

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Steps

1

In a pot add the syrup ingredients which is sugar, water, lemon juice and honey. Heat until sugar is dissolved. Turn off heat and let cool down.
2

Chop nuts (pecans and macadamia) finely and mix with ground cinnamon
3

Preheat oven to 160°C. In a oven proof dish spread a layer of unsalted butter, lay a sheet of strudel or phylly pastry, spread butter again. Do this for 5 layers. Add a layer of nut mixture (third of the nut mixture)
4

Add 3 layers of strudel or phyllo pastry with butter between each layer. Add another layer of nut mixture. Repeat one more time.
5

Last layer should be like first layer with 5 strudel or phyllo pastry sheets. Butter between each layer.
6

Cut into squares right to the bottom of the dish.
7

Bake in 160°C oven for 1 hour 15 minutes or until top layer is golden brown.
8

Remove from oven, let cool slightly. Pour syrup over baklava.
9

Enjoy with a cup of tea!