Baklava

This is my 50th post……..so thought of posting a sweet.Happy to reach here with the support of family,friends and other bloggers…….….hope this support will continue for me to keep on going………Thanks a lot to all of them who supported me.
The famous Arabic sweet “Baklava”……………….the phyllodough filled with nuts and soaked in sugar syrup………..this can be made in many shapes,squares,diamond,fingers and small rectangles……I made this in small rectangle shapes.This really tasted awesome.That day we had some guests,they tasted it and said it was really good.It tasted more good than the shop one.I was so happy to hear that.One plate of baklava disappeared within seconds….………kids too loved this.Now got order for making this another day………… kids are saying it was not enough that day………….not only for them for me too!!!!But thinking of the calories I intake I have to control myself from making and eating this………once start I can’t stop having this………..really this is a delicious sweet!!!!!!!



















Ingredients:

1pkt Phyllo dough
1c Walnuts
¼ c Pistachios
¼ c Sugar
½ tsp Cinnamon powder
½ c Melted butter

For Syrup:

1c Sugar
1tsp Rose water
1c Water


















Method:

1.Defrost the phyllo dough.
2.Now cut out a medium sized square out of the dough.
3.Coarse grind the walnuts.
4.Mix sugar and cinnamon powder to the walnut and mix well.
5.Now brush each phyllo sheet with butter and place one over another.
6.Stack atleast 7 to 10 sheets.
7.Now put the walnut mixture on the sheet on the lengthy side in a thick line leaving 1 inch of the sheet edge.
8.Now roll the sheet into a log shape.
9.Cut carefully with a knife into small square or rectangles.
10.Preheat the oven to 180 degree C for 20 mins.
11.Line a baking sheet and place these baklavas on the sheet and bake it on 165 degree C for 20 to 25 mins or till the down portion is lightly browned and the top part is crispy.
12.For sugar syrup mix sugar,water and rose water and bring to boil.Boil till the syrup is slightly thickened.
13.Pour this syrup over the baked baklavas.
14.Allow the baklavas to absorb the syrup.
15.It will take almost 2 to 3 hrs to get absorbed fully.
16.Have baklavas one by one and you will find hard to stop.