Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, homemade baklava. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Homemade Baklava is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Homemade Baklava is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have homemade baklava using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Baklava:

1. Take 250 g strudel dough or 16 layers phyllo pastry
2. Take 125 g unsalted butter, melted
3. Prepare 1/2 cup pecans
4. Make ready 1/2 cup macadamia
5. Make ready 2 teaspoons cinnamon, ground
6. Make ready Syrup
7. Take 1 cup sugar
8. Take 3/4 cups water
9. Prepare 2 tablespoons lemon juice
10. Get 1/2 honey

You can change the nut mixture according to what you have. Many ethnic festivals are held in my city throughout the year. One in May is the Greek Hellenic Festival. My family enjoys baklava—a traditional walnut strudel.

Steps to make Homemade Baklava:

1. In a pot add the syrup ingredients which is sugar, water, lemon juice and honey. Heat until sugar is dissolved. Turn off heat and let cool down.
2. Chop nuts (pecans and macadamia) finely and mix with ground cinnamon
   1. Preheat oven to 160°C. In a oven proof dish spread a layer of unsalted butter, lay a sheet of strudel or phylly pastry, spread butter again. Do this for 5 layers. Add a layer of nut mixture (third of the nut mixture)
3. Add 3 layers of strudel or phyllo pastry with butter between each layer. Add another layer of nut mixture. Repeat one more time.
4. Last layer should be like first layer with 5 strudel or phyllo pastry sheets. Butter between each layer.
5. Cut into squares right to the bottom of the dish.
6. Bake in 160°C oven for 1 hour 15 minutes or until top layer is golden brown.
7. Remove from oven, let cool slightly. Pour syrup over baklava.
8. Enjoy with a cup of tea!

One in May is the Greek Hellenic Festival. My family enjoys baklava—a traditional walnut strudel. The recipe uses phyllo dough, which is not difficult to work with. Just have your ingredients ready to go and follow the directions on the package. The results are scrumptious and well worth the effort.

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