Baklava

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1 hr 0 min
Yield:
about 28 pieces
Level:
Intermediate
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Ingredients

For the filling:

  • 1 (5-inch piece) cinnamon stick, broken into 2 to 3 pieces or 2 teaspoons ground
  • 15 to 20 whole allspice berries
  • 6 ounces blanched almonds
  • 6 ounces raw or roasted walnuts
  • 6 ounces raw or roasted pistachio
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 teaspoon rose water
  • 1 pound phyllo dough, thawed
  • 8 ounces clarified unsalted butter, melted

For the syrup:

  • 1 1/4 cups honey
  • 1 1/4 cups water
  • 1 1/4 cups sugar
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 (2-inch) piece fresh orange peel

Directions

Heat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Place the cinnamon stick and whole allspice into a spice grinder and grind.

Place the almonds, walnuts, pistachios, sugar and freshly ground spices into the bowl of a food processor and pulse until finely chopped, but not pasty or powdery, approximately 15 quick pulses. Set aside.

Combine the water and rose water in a small spritz bottle and set aside.

Trim the sheets of phyllo to fit the bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2-inch metal pan. Brush the bottom and sides of the pan with butter; lay down a sheet of phyllo and brush with butter. Repeat this step 9 more times for a total of 10 sheets of phyllo. Top with 1/3 of the nut mixture and spread thinly. Spritz thoroughly with the rose water. Layer 6 more sheets of phyllo with butter in between each of them, followed by another third of the nuts and spritz with rose water. Repeat with another 6 sheets of phyllo, butter, remaining nuts, and rose water. Top with 8 sheets of phyllo brushing with butter in between each sheet. Brush the top generously with butter. Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Remove pan from the oven and cut into 28 squares. Return pan to the oven and continue to bake for another 30 minutes. Remove pan from the oven, place on a cooling rack, and cool for 2 hours before adding the syrup.

Make the syrup during the last 30 minutes of cooling. Combine the honey, water, sugar, cinnamon stick and orange peel in a 4-quart saucepan and set over high heat. Stir occasionally until the sugar has dissolved. Once boiling, boil for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and discard the orange peel and cinnamon stick.

After the baklava has cooled for 2 hours, re-cut the entire pan following the same lines as before. Pour the hot syrup evenly over the top of the baklava, allowing it to run into the cuts and around the edges of the pan. Allow the pan to sit, uncovered until completely cool. Cover and store at room temperature for at least 8 hours and up to overnight before serving. Store, covered, at room temperature for up to 5 days.

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  • on April 08, 2013

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    Thanks for sharing the above Baklava Recipe. I really enjoyed making it and it was just made yummy.. :

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  • on December 31, 2012

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    Delicious overall. Strong points on this particular recipe:
    The freshly ground allspice and cinnamon stick makes the difference. I'm talking SIGNIFICANT.
    Due to my middle eastern heritage and making this before, I do caution a HALT! and disagree with using butter on each of the first 4 or 5 sheets! Why? Because once they are baked, and the cold syrup is poured, it will create a 'wet dumpling' bottom and not crisp up. Which also presents another suggestion: I did NOT dump the whole syrup mixture. I only used a sparing amount, waiting for each application to sponge into the crisp layers till it shined.
    Once again, this wasn't so difficult, but ASSEMBLY IS EVERYTHING! All of you had great ideas!

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  • on December 29, 2012

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    we used finely ground walnuts mixed with a little fructose sugar( we are diabetics but were surprisd to see the walnuts became totally black when baklava was cooked. we also used fructose sugar plus lemon juice when making up the syrup. any ideas as to the change in colour with walnuts. otherwise the flavour was OK

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