Christmas baklava. Spoon a thin layer of the pecan-sugar mixture over the phyllo sheets. While baklava is baking, heat honey in a sauce pan until close to boiling. Stir in vanilla and lemon zest.
You can have Christmas baklava using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Christmas baklava
- You need 1 kg of ground walnuts.
- Prepare 1 kg of filo pastry.
- Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
- You need 1 of bit of nutmeg.
- It’s 250 g of clarified butter.
- You need of cloves.
- It’s of for the syrup.
- It’s 1 kg of sugar.
- It’s 2 of vanillins.
- It’s half of a lemon washed well.
- You need 5 cups of water.
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.
Christmas baklava instructions
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..
This Christmas Baklava at its core is a strong sweet dessert. Done well, one to two bites will satiate you in one sitting, kind of like the area coffee. It's truly delicious and worth every minute it takes to create. Baklava makes a great Christmas food gift: Give a whole pan to someone you love or split it up into portions and gift them in little boxes or bags. Your recipients will love you even more than they already do.
