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Baklava
Baklava from Greece and Turkey, as a dessert serve with ice cream and syrup
Ingredients
3½ cups (375g) walnuts, finely chopped
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons caster sugar
12 sheets filo pastry
Olive oil spray
1 cup sugar
1 cinnamon stick
2 teaspoons lemon juice
Preparation
Preheat oven to a 180°C/160°C fan forced.
Lightly grease a 20x30cm baking tin.
Stir together walnuts, cinnamon and caster sugar.
Spray 1 sheet of pastry with oil, fold crosswise in half.
Place in pan.
Repeat with 3 more sheets.
Spoon over half the walnut mixture.
Repeat pastry process with 4 more sheets.
Spoon over remaining walnut mixture.
Spray and add remaining 4 sheets.
Spray top.
Using the tip of a sharp knife, score top layer into diamonds.
Bake 30 minutes.
Stir sugar, 2 3 cup water, cinnamon and lemon juice in a small saucepan over low heat until sugar dissolves.
Bring to the boil; reduce heat.
Simmer 5 minutes.
Pour evenly over hot pastry.
While still warm, cut layer through into diamonds.
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