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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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