Great tasty Arabic baklava.
Ingredients
- 4 cups finely ground walnuts (like quinoa)
- 2 cups butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp. cardamon
- 15 - 18 sheets of phyllo dough
Sugar syrup
- 2 cups sugar
- 1½ cups water
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Directions
Sugar syrup
- In a pan put the water and sugar and heat until boiling.
- Once it start boiling add the lemon and leave in for another 15 minutes until the syrup start thickening.
- Set a side to cool.
Baklava
- Preheat oven.
- Brush the surface of the baking tray ( square or rectangular shape 24 x40 cm) with oil.
- Melt the butter.
- Put on layer of dough in the baking tray and brush it with the butter, repeat 6 times.
- On the side mix the walnuts with the sugar.
- Spread the walnut mix equally on top of the dough.
- Spread ¼ cup of the butter on top of the walnuts.
- Put another dough on top of the walnut and brush it with butter.
- Repeat the last step 12 times.
- Wet your fingers with water and gently wipe the last dough.
- Brush the last dough with butter generously.
- Cut the baklava into small squares.
- Put the baklava in the oven.
- Bake on 325 °F for about half an hour then on 450 °F for the last 5-10 minutes until it turns golden and crunchy.
- Take the baklava out of the oven and immediately pour the cooled sugar syrup on it.
- Serve at room temperature.