Christmas baklava. Spoon a thin layer of the pecan-sugar mixture over the phyllo sheets. It's become one of those traditions. It seems no matter what, she will be here a few days before Christmas.
You can cook Christmas baklava using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Christmas baklava
- It’s 1 kg of ground walnuts.
- It’s 1 kg of filo pastry.
- Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
- Prepare 1 of bit of nutmeg.
- It’s 250 g of clarified butter.
- You need of cloves.
- Prepare of for the syrup.
- Prepare 1 kg of sugar.
- Prepare 2 of vanillins.
- Prepare half of a lemon washed well.
- Prepare 5 cups of water.
While baklava is baking, heat honey in a sauce pan until close to boiling. Stir in vanilla and lemon zest. When baklava is done baking, immediately pour the honey mixture over the top. Using a very sharp knife, cut through all layers of the baklava.
Christmas baklava step by step
Place the walnuts, nutmeg and sugar in a bowl and mix well..
Place 3 pieces of filo on a large tray without buttering them. On the third filo sprinkle a few spoonfuls of the walnut mix. Keep on layering filo/ filling till they are finished. Take care so that the last three pieces of filo are left without filling..
Cut in pieces and stick a clove on each piece..
Melt the butter, let it come to boil and add it by spoonfuls on the sweet especially over the parts that you have cut..
Bake the sweet in the oven at 150°C for 2 hours. When it is done let it cool for a while and then top it with the syrup that you've boiled for 5 minutes..
Then make diagonal cuts to make diamond shapes. While baklava is baking, heat honey in a sauce pan until close to boiling. Stir in vanilla and lemon zest. When baklava is done baking, immediately pour the honey mixture over the top. This Christmas Baklava at its core is a strong sweet dessert.
