Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lebanese baklava. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lebanese Baklava is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lebanese Baklava is something which I have loved my whole life.
Our Lebanese Baklava Recipe is very easy to prepare at home and it yields delicious authentic Today there are dozens of types of "Baklava" grouped in Lebanese Cuisine under "Arabic Sweets". Lebanese baklawa on the otherhand uses a simple syrup mixture scented with orange blossom and rose waters. Batlawa filling is also a little bit lighter than baklava, not as much filling overall and less.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have lebanese baklava using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Baklava:
- Take 2 pcs Phyllo Pastry
- Make ready 500 gr unsalted butted
- Prepare 250 gr almond meal
- Make ready 500 gr walnut (finely grounded with blender)
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 3 tbsp rose water
- Take 3 tbsp orange blossom water
- Make ready 100 gr pistachio (grounded)
- Take Syrup/attar:
- Get 3 cups sugar
- Take 2 cups water
- Make ready Lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
- Take 2 tbsp orange blossom water
- Prepare 2 tbsp rose water
Pour syrup over baklava making sure the dough is well saturated. In Lebanon, nobody makes baklava at home! I knew she had years and years of experience churning out thousands of trays of baklava for her Coptic church festivals all over the South. Baklava Recipe, Honey Baklava, How to Make Best Baklava.
Instructions to make Lebanese Baklava:
- First of all we make the syrup/attar. Boil the water, add sugar. Stir it occasionally until thickened. Once it thickened, turn off the fire add lemon juice, rose water, and orange blossom water, mix them well. Store in a bottle or container while cooled.
- Preheat oven 160°C, meanwhile we prepare the baklava filling. Mix almond meal, ground walnut, sugar, rose water, and orange blossom water in a mixing bowl until it becomes like a dough. If it needs more water, add more rose water or orange blossom water gradually.
- Melt the butter properly. Coat the baking tray with the butter.
- Remove first phyllo pastry from the packaging, spread carefully on the butter in the baking tray.
- Spread the walnut mixture on top of the phyllo pastry evenly. Make sure you press it to make it firm.
- Open another package of phyllo pastry and layer it on top of the walnut filling and press it carefully.
- Start cutting baklava in diamond shape with a sharp knife slowly. Make sure it cut really well to the bottom layer.
- After all tray of baklava cut really well, pour butter gradually all over it.
- Bake it until the top layer looks flaky. It takes around 10-20 mins, oven heat may vary. Don't let it over cook, it doesn't take long.
- Remove from the over when the top layer looks golden and flaky.
- Pour syrup/attar on top of it while it's still hot. Sprinkle ground pistachio. Wait until it cools down.
- Baklava is ready to enjoy for dessert.
This honey baklava is flaky, crisp and tender and I love that it isn't overly sweet. It's basically a party in your mouth. Our baklava Is made using our ancestors recipe with a touch of innovation. With the first bite, you will be addicted to the fresh crispy taste. You gotta try it for yourself!
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