World Flavors Cookbook

Baklawa

Name: Baklawa
Cook time: 45 min
Cuisine: Lebanon
Ingredients: Phyllo pastry sheets, 2 cups ground pistachios or walnuts, ghee (clarified butter), rose and orange blossom water syrup.

Layers of paper-thin phyllo pastry filled with premium nuts and drenched in a light rose-water syrup.

Cuisine: Lebanon

Ingredients

Phyllo pastry sheets, 2 cups ground pistachios or walnuts, ghee (clarified butter), rose and orange blossom water syrup.

Instructions

Layer the phyllo sheets in a tray, brushing each generously with clarified butter. Add a thick layer of ground nuts. Top with more phyllo layers. Cut into diamonds and bake until golden and crispy. Pour cold rose-water syrup over the hot pastry immediately after removing from the oven.