Baklava Rolls. Directions In a large saucepan, bring sugar, water, lemon juice and cinnamon sticks to a boil. Still baklava rolls or baklava cigars are the most wanted and enjoyed recipe by my family. Baklava or Baklawa as we pronounce it in Arabic, is one of the easiest Middle eastern desserts.
You can cook Baklava Rolls using 16 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Baklava Rolls
- Prepare sheets of Filo pastry.
- It’s 400 g of walnuts, finely chopped.
- Prepare 400 g of almonds, finely chopped.
- You need 300 g of unsalted butter, melted.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of cinnamon powder.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of cardamom powder.
- You need 1/2 tsp of nutmeg powder.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of clove powder.
- You need 1/4 cup of sugar.
- It’s of Recipe for syrup.
- You need 1 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of honey.
- You need 3/4 cup of water.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of lemon juice.
- You need 1 tsp of cinnamon powder.
- You need 2 tbsp of rose water or orange blossome.
Roll your rolls are tightly as possible to ensure that you have even and smooth layers on the inside. Pour your honey and sugar and honey mixture on your baklava rolls while they are still hot. This will allow them to soak up the mixture better. Cut your baklava pieces at an angle with a sharp knife.
Baklava Rolls step by step
Preheat the oven to 150C. For sugar syrup, add water, honey, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon powder to a pot. Boil it for 15-20 minutes, until thicker the sugar syrup. Once its ready, let it cool..
Add cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, clove and sugar to the powdered nuts and mix together, and set aside. Lay one sheet of filo pastry on working table and brush with melted butter. Then, spread the chopped nuts over pastry..
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Roll it up. Now, squeeze rolled filo as you see in photo..
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Grease the baking tray and Place rolled pastry in the baking tray..
Brush all rolled up pastry with melted butter. Put the tray in the preheated oven and allow to bake for about 40-45 minutes..
Once baklava is ready, use a sharp knife and cut each filo roll into half. Pour chilled sugar syrup over warm baklava and use some nuts for topping. Let baklava set in sugar syrup for 5-6 hours. These sticky, nutty and flaky sweets with a cup of tea or coffee will make your day..
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Cut the rolls into bite-size pieces. Baklava Rolls: Place one sheet of thawed fillo dough on a cutting board then lightly brush it with melted butter. These sticky baklava rolls is a delicious sweet treat loaded with brown sugar, cinnamon and pecan nuts. The sticky syrup takes it over the top. There are a few desserts I always swoon over.
