Greek Baklava
Posted by admin | Filed under Recipes
Ingredients
- 450g Philo dough
- 450g chopped nuts (walnuts, almonds, unsalted pistachios)
- 225g butter
- 2g ground cinnamon
- 235ml water
- 200g white sugar
- 5ml vanilla extract
- 120ml honey
- L<C Sunflower Oil Spray
Method
Preheat oven to 160˚ C. Spray 8×13 inch tin with L<C on the bottom and sides, especially corners.
Mix together the nuts and cinnamon.
Cover the base of the tin with 10 sheets of pastry, each sheet sprayed with L<C Sunflower oil spray.
Sprinkle some nut mixture over the pastry.
Spray 2 sheets of pastry with L<C Sunflower oil spray and place on top.
Repeat this process until all the pastry and nuts are used up, finishing with a pastry layer. Spray some L<C Sunflower Oil spray over the top layer.
Bake at 160˚ C. for about 1 hour.
While the baklava is cooking make the syrup.
Combine all syrup ingredients in a saucepan. Heat to dissolve the sugar then boil for further 10 minutes.
When Baklava is cooked, take it out and cut into squares. Pour on halve of the syrup and allow to stand for 30 minutes. Then pour over the rest of the syrup and leave baklava into the fridge overnight.
Serves 18