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Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Lebanese Baklava

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Caroline Wilkins
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Lebanese Baklava

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lebanese baklava. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Lebanese baklava is very special occasion dessert that we eat during the holidays, after breaking our fast for Ramadan or during big events with family. What makes this Lebanese baklava recipe unique from other types of baklava is the aromatic simple syrup flavored with rose water. This version is very similar to how my mom used to make it growing up. Lebanese Baklava (Baklawa) is the best of many Middle Eastern sweets.

Lebanese Baklava is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lebanese Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lebanese baklava using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Baklava:
  1. Make ready 2 pcs Phyllo Pastry
  2. Prepare 500 gr unsalted butted
  3. Make ready 250 gr almond meal
  4. Make ready 500 gr walnut (finely grounded with blender)
  5. Get 1 cup sugar
  6. Make ready 3 tbsp rose water
  7. Take 3 tbsp orange blossom water
  8. Take 100 gr pistachio (grounded)
  9. Take Syrup/attar:
  10. Get 3 cups sugar
  11. Prepare 2 cups water
  12. Take Lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
  13. Make ready 2 tbsp orange blossom water
  14. Prepare 2 tbsp rose water

Hashweh must not contain too much moisture, moisture will cause the filling to bake a dark colour which is not ideal. A spray of sugar on top of the bottom layer of filo dough and on. Baklava, aka Baklawa is a Middle-Eastern dessert whose origins may go as far back as B. C times to the Assyrian civilization.

Instructions to make Lebanese Baklava:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Melt the butter properly. Coat the baking tray with the butter.
  4. Remove first phyllo pastry from the packaging, spread carefully on the butter in the baking tray.
  5. Spread the walnut mixture on top of the phyllo pastry evenly. Make sure you press it to make it firm.
  6. Open another package of phyllo pastry and layer it on top of the walnut filling and press it carefully.
  7. Start cutting baklava in diamond shape with a sharp knife slowly. Make sure it cut really well to the bottom layer.
  8. After all tray of baklava cut really well, pour butter gradually all over it.
  9. 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.
  10. Remove from the over when the top layer looks golden and flaky.
  11. Pour syrup/attar on top of it while it's still hot. Sprinkle ground pistachio. Wait until it cools down.
  12. Baklava is ready to enjoy for dessert.

Baklava, aka Baklawa is a Middle-Eastern dessert whose origins may go as far back as B. C times to the Assyrian civilization. Through the centuries, many neighboring countries adopted the delicacy and created their own versions. Today there are dozens of types of "Baklava" grouped in Lebanese Cuisine under "Arabic Sweets". My Lebanese baklawa recipe gives you step-by-step instructions so you can enjoy baking and eating this beautiful classic pastry..

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