Lebanese Baklava
Lebanese Baklava

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lebanese baklava. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Baklawa (Lebanese Version of Baklava) Recipe by Sandi From CA. I haven't made this yet, but plan to. The mazahar, or orange blossom water, can be purchased at any Middle Eastern or Greek specialty store.

Lebanese Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Lebanese Baklava is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

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

There are many variations of Baklawa (Lebanese baklava)– which I am NUTS for! But at my favorite Lebanese bakery, this style of baklawa caught my eye. It is a bit simpler to make than your typical squared nut baklawa or bird's nest baklawa, and it is very easy to eat too, which makes it a great finger food dessert in social situations. The traditional Greek bakLAVA uses a honey based syrup with some additional spices, generally quite sweet.

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.

Lebanese baklawa on the otherhand uses a simple syrup mixture scented with orange blossom and rose waters. Batlawa filling is also a little bit lighter than baklava, not as much filling overall and less ingredients. My Lebanese baklawa recipe gives you step-by-step instructions so you can enjoy baking and eating this beautiful classic pastry. Lebanese baklawa is buttery, crisp layers of phyllo filled with nuts and drenched in flower water syrup. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to the details of how to make Lebanese baklawa: The summary 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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