Greek Baclava


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Ingredients

500 grams butter
300 grams grated walnuts
40 sheets filo pastry
1 tablespoon cinnamon
For the syrup
650 grams sugar
80 grams glucose
400 grams water

Preparation

1
Melt the butter in a pan.
2
Cut all the sheets of filo pastry into a circular shape to fit the round, medium-sized oven dish you will use.
3
Butter the oven dish and start placing 20 sheets of filo pastry individually, buttering each one as you do so.
4
Mix the cinnamon with the walnuts and add the mixture to the dish on top of the 20 filo sheets.
5
Place the other 20 sheets on top, again individually and buttering each one as you do so.
6
Place the dish in the fridge for 10 minutes.
7
When you take it out, cut the baklava into diamond shapes (see photo) making sure you make the cuts right to the bottom.
8
Spray it with water and bake it in a pre heated oven at 150 C for 90 minutes.
9
While the baklava is baking, prepare the syrup.
10
Put all the ingredients for the syrup in a pan, bring to the boil and continue boiling for 3 minutes.
11
When you remove the baklava from the oven, pour the syrup evenly on top of it. This has to be done when both are still hot.

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Baclava is probably one of the best-known sweets from this area of the world and quite rightly so, in my opinion! You should be able to obtain the sheets of filo pastry where you live - it's available in most parts of the world, I believe.

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Yield:

10 servings

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Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 2:51am

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