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Beyond Bellydancing
Go beyond bellydancing and involve your other senses in your experience of Middle Eastern dance and culture. We started this journey with chickpea curry and now we moving onto desert!
Why not delight your guests with a traditional middle-eastern dessert to tantilize their taste buds after their delightful main meal. So we making Baklava!
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Ingredients:
2 ½ cups walnuts or pistachio nuts
- 4 ½ cups sugar
- 450g butter
- 1 package, or 450g frozen filo dough, thawed
according to package directions
- 2 cups water
- ½ teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons rosewater
- cinnamon if using walnuts
Preparation:
Prepare Syrup First
Combine 4 cups sugar, lemon juice, water in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, and allow to boil for 10 minutes. Add rosewater and bring to a boil. Remove from heat immediately. Allow to cool.
Preparing Dough and Filling
Combine ½ cup sugar and nuts in a bowl. If using walnuts add cinnamon. Preheat oven to 300 °C. Butter the bottom of 9x12 baking dish. Unroll dough and cut into 9x12 pieces to fit into dish. Butter bottom of pan with butter. Place two sheets of dough in the baking dish. Brush dough with butter and repeat until half of filo dough is used. Spread about 1 cup of nut mixture over the last layer of dough. Place two sheets of filo dough and brush with butter. Repeat until nut mixture is used. On the final layer of filo dough, be sure to brush with butter. Cut into 3 inch squares. Then, cut each square in half diagonally to make triangles. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and pour syrup over top of baklava and allow to seep and saturate it well.
Enjoy!
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