BAKLAVA

truly delicious...you wont stop eating until....

500 grms filo pastry
1/4 cup caster sugar
1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
2/3 cup finely chopped almonds
2 cups finely chopped walnuts (best crack new walnuts)
1/3 cup caster sugar
3 tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground cloves
3 tbsp honey
1 measure syrup

Use a 33x23x5 cm oven dish. With a brass line base and sides of dish with melted butter.
Place 8 sheets of filo into the dish brushing each with melted butter.
Mix nuts with spices and sugar and spread half over filo.
Top with two more sheets of filo brushing each wit butter.
Spread remaining nut mixture and top with another 8 sheets of filo, brushing each one with butter as before.
Brush top with butter and trim edges.
With a sharp knife cut into square shapes the top layers of filo and sprinkle them with water to prevent curling of sheets.
Place the dish in moderately low oven, on the low shelf, for 20 minutes.
Cover the dish with foil and move the dish up one shelf and cook for another 40 minutes.
You must cook filo well. The last five minutes of cooking remove foil from dish.
While baklava is cooking prepare the syrup as follows

Syrup recipe

2 cups water
2 cups sugar
4 cloves whole
2 5cm cinnamon sticks
2 tbsp lemon juice the rind of a lemon and add the
3 tbsp of honey

In a heavy saucepan place all the ingredients and boil over moderately high heat for 10 minutes.
Strain and use as required.

Let syrup cool and spoon over baklava.
Let baklava for 4 to 6 hour before cutting to portions.

baklava

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