Mmmmmm. Little sweet middle eastern pastries. Perfect with black coffee.
Baklava
Ingredients
- 800 g filo pastry
- 1 3/4 cups 350 g melted butter or margarine
- 6 cups 750 g nuts (almonds or walnuts or pecans), chopped
- 2.5 cups 500 g sugar
- 2 tablespoons rose water
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Layer pastry sheets with butter or margarine between each sheet.
- Spread nuts over half filo and fold filo over to form a kind of sandwich or just spread nuts over the top
- Bake 180º C for 25 min, then 150º C for 25 min.
- Boil sugar, rose water and lemon juice for 15 minutes until syrup
- Pour over pastry