Lebanese Baklava
Lebanese Baklava

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lebanese baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lebanese Baklava is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Lebanese Baklava is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Lebanese baklawa is buttery, crisp layers of phyllo filled with nuts and drenched in flower water syrup. Once you get the hang of the many parts involved, it's a wonderful and not-difficult addition to your baking repertoire! By the way, you don't have to butter every layer! Lebanese baklawa on the otherhand uses a simple syrup mixture scented with orange blossom and rose waters.

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

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

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". The main difference is that Greek baklava uses honey whereas the Lebanese style uses a sugar syrup; a YUMMY sugar syrup if I might say!

Steps 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.

Today there are dozens of types of "Baklava" grouped in Lebanese Cuisine under "Arabic Sweets". The main difference is that Greek baklava uses honey whereas the Lebanese style uses a sugar syrup; a YUMMY sugar syrup if I might say! So here you go, homemade, flaky, sweet and tasty Baklava! Remove from heat; stir in lemon juice and orange blossom water (you can substitute rose water if you can't find orange blossom water), and set aside to cool. Baklawa (pronounced bahk-LAY-wa or even bit-LAY-wa, and sometimes: bit-LAY-wee) is the Lebanese pastry of phyllo, clarified butter, nuts, and flower water simple syrup.

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