Baklava

Baklava

Ingredients:

           600g            phyllo pastry sheets / sheets phyllo dough

  400 - 450g            ground walnuts (optional 200g walnuts and 200g pistachios or almond)

 about 150g            melted butter or oil for brushing and overflow baklava

        2 tablespoon   sugar

                               cinnamon if you like

For syrup:

400g   sugar

200g   water

1          lemon (juice from ½ lemons and ½ sliced into rings). You can add grated orange peel

Preparation:

Grease an 18cm x 30cm (7in x 12in) baking tray with butter. Melt the remaining butter in a saucepan over low heat. Lay 2 sheets of phyllo pastry, one at a time, into the tray, brushing each sheet with butter before adding the next. On every second sheet spread the mixture of nuts and sugar (and cinnamon). When you expend all sheets cut baklava into small diamond-shaped pieces or triangles using a sharp knife. Good warm butter pours after each cut so that sizzles. Put baklava in the preheated oven for approximately 20 minutes, then decrease the oven temperature to 150C/300F and cook for an additional half hour to 40 minutes, or until the pastry is slightly puffed and golden on top. Remove baklava when it is golden on top. Pour the hot syrup into the slits in the hot baklava and leave to cool.

Syrup:

For the syrup, heat the sugar, water, lemon juice, lemon and orange peel in saucepan and cook over a medium heat until the sugar has melted and syrup is formed. Take out from syrup the slice of lemon and orange pill and pour the baklava.

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Baklava

Sastojci:

           600g           tanke kore – kore za pitu ili najbolje ako ima za baklavu

  400 - 450g          mlevenih oraha (moze 200g oraha and 200g pistaca ili badema)

 okot 150g            rastopljen maslac ili ulje za premazivanje kora

        2 kasika        secera

                             cimet ako volite

Za sirup:

400g   secera

200g   vode

1          limun (sok od  ½ limuna i ½ limuna secenog na krugove). Mozete dodati rendanu koru od narandze

Priprema:

Premazite maslacem pleh za pecenje dimenzija 18cm x 30cm (7in x 12in). otopite preostali maslac na tihoj vatri. Postavite 2 kore u pleh premazujuci svaku rastopljenim maslacem koristeci cetkicu. Na svaku drugu koru pospite mesavinu oraha i secera (pistaci, badem cimet). Kad potrosite sve kore iseci ostrim nozem baklavu na male rombove ili trouglove. Dobro zagrejanim maslacem preliti baklava po svakom rezu tako da zacvrci. Staviti baklava da se pece u prethodno zagrejanu rerun 20 minuta, smanjujuci temperaturu na 150C/300F pecite narednih pola sata do 40 minutea, ili dok baklava ne dobije zlatno zutu boju. Izvadite baklava iz rerne i prelijte vrucu baklava sa vrucim sirupom. Ostaviti da se ohladi.

Sirup:

Pomesajte sve sastojke i kuvajte na srednjoj temperature dok se sirup ne zgusne kao za slatko. Izvadite parcice limuna i rendane narandze pa prelijte baklava.