This easy baklava recipe brings European holiday flavors of walnuts, honey, and golden phyllo dough to your table this year!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour15 minutesminutes
Servings 24Pieces
Calories 331kcal
Equipment
Food processor
9x13 baking dish
Saucepan
sharp knife
Ingredients
16ouncesPhyllo Dough Sheets
Filling
1 ½poundswalnutsfinely chopped
½cupsugar
½teaspooncinnamon
⅛teaspoonground cloves
Syrup
2cupssugar
2cupswater
1cuphoney
1tablespoongrated orange zest
1cup buttermelted (for brushing phyllo sheets)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a food processor, combine the walnuts, sugar, cinnamon and clove and process until finely chopped. Set aside.
Unroll phyllo dough and cut dough stack to fit into your pan (if needed)
Assembly:
Brush a baking dish with melted butter.
Place one sheet of phyllo dough in the dish and brush with more melted butter. Repeat this layering 7 times.
Sprinkle the walnut filling over the phyllo layers, enough to lightly cover the sheets. Following this pattern: 7 layers of phyllo sheets layered with butter, then 1 layer of walnut sugar mix, then 7 more layers of phyllo sheets with butter, 1 layer of walnut sugar mix, and so on until all ingredients are used up.
Finish with a final layer of 5 phyllo dough sheets on top. Butter the top layer.
With a sharp knife, cut the Baklava into diamond or square patterns.
Bake for about 45 minutes or until golden brown.
Syrup:
While the baklava is baking, make the syrup. Combine sugar, water, honey, and orange zest into a pan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes or until it thickens.
Once the baklava is out of the oven and still hot, pour the cooled syrup over it, ensuring it's distributed evenly.
Allow the baklava to cool and soak up the syrup for several hours before serving.
Notes
Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.