Ingredients
Syrup
- 250 grams sugar
- 200 grams water
- lemon rind, of one lemon
- lemon juice, of one lemon
- 3 pieces orange peel
- 4 cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick
Filling
- 375gm filo pastry
- 200 grams Butter
- 400 grams almonds, blanched and roasted
- 130 grams sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
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Spatula TM5/TM6
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Place all the syrup ingredients in the bowl and cook on Speed 3, 100 degrees,
"Counter-clockwise operation" for 25 minutes. One cooked and sticky, pour through a strainer into another bowl and allow to cool. The syrup can be made ahead of time.Preheat your oven to 180 degrees.
Place almonds, sugar and cinnamon into the bowl and chop on Speed 7 for 3-4 seconds. This will mean you have some texture to the baklava.
Melt the butter gently in a saucepan.
Take the filo pastry out of the packet. it is important to work fast otherwise the filo can dry out. Cut the filo to the same width as the cake tin. This allows you to simply place each sheet into the cake tin as you assemble the baklava. I also use the offcuts between layering.
Reserve 6 - 8 sheets of filo for the top.
Bruah the base of the cake tin with butter. Add a sheet of filo. Brush with melted butter. Repeat with another 7 sheets of filo.
Sprinkle the nut mixture generaously over the filo.
Continue the layering of filo pastry (3 sheets, each buttered) and one layer of nuts until all the nuts are used.
Top with the reserved sheets of filo, making sure the top sheet is well buttered. Score the top few sheets into diamonds or squares to avoud the pastry from puffing up during baking.
Bake in the oven for about 30 -40 minutes, until golden brown.
Take your baklava out of the oven and pour the cooled syrup over the top. Allow the syrup to be absorbed before cutting all the way through to the bottom.
Syrup
Baklava
Tip
You can use walnuts and pistachios in this recipe. I use almonds because my daughter has an allergy to walnuts.
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Comments
Made half, with full syrup. Delist. Made spinach cheese triangles with the other half- great combo
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Great recipe, thank you for sharing 😊
Excellent recipe. I used 150g wanuts and 250g almonds.
I made this for a work lunch and the reviews were sensational. I will make this again for sure as it was delicious. I will cut through a few more layers next time so the syrup can soak in really well
Such a delicious and easy recipe!
I made this tonight and it was yummy. It had a slight lemon tang but I love that. I used walnuts and almonds as I couldn't get pistachios. Hubby loved it too. We started eating it whilst it was slightly warm because we could wait any longer.
OMG! This is amazing!!! I made it ah for Christmas Day but I'm not sure it'll last lol. I used 300 grams raw almonds and 100 grams walnuts as that is what I had and it was delicious. Thanks for sharing
I love this. I used hazelnuts instead of almonds and it turned out really good!
I made this and it was perfect! Better then Ive had in restaurants. I also added handful of crushed pistacio's overtop of the syrup.