Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, lebanese baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava, aka Baklawa is a Middle-Eastern dessert whose origins may go as far back as B. C times Today there are dozens of types of "Baklava" grouped in Lebanese Cuisine under "Arabic Sweets". My mother makes her Lebanese baklava by brushing each layer of pastry with ghee, I've swapped out ghee with vegetable ghee and use the soaking method I learned by Chef Ahmed. One of our good friends is from Lebanon so I decided to go with the Lebanese style of Baklava rather than the Greek style.

Lebanese Baklava is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Lebanese Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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. Prepare 500 gr unsalted butted
3. Prepare 250 gr almond meal
4. Prepare 500 gr walnut (finely grounded with blender)
5. Make ready 1 cup sugar
6. Make ready 3 tbsp rose water
7. Prepare 3 tbsp orange blossom water
8. Prepare 100 gr pistachio (grounded)
9. Make ready Syrup/attar:
10. Get 3 cups sugar
11. Prepare 2 cups water
12. Get Lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
13. Get 2 tbsp orange blossom water
14. Prepare 2 tbsp rose water

Learn how to make best homemade Lebanese Baklava. Baklava is a Middle Eastern/Mediterranean dessert made with Phyllo dough (pastry), nuts, butter, and sugar. Lebanese style Baklava with walnuts and almonds. Lebanese Baklava - Classic Filo Dough Dessert.

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 style Baklava with walnuts and almonds. Lebanese Baklava - Classic Filo Dough Dessert. This recipe is originally Turkish but a staple at my Lebanese family gatherings. It's fairly easy to make and bound to wow your guests! You are here: Home > Cuisine > Lebanese > Lebanese Desserts > Baklava ( Lebanese Recipe).

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