Baklava

Before you get started with the recipe, I just wanted to say that I got this recipe from a wonderful website, which features many delicious Lebanese recipes http://www.fidelll.com/ .

There are a lot of assumptions, where Baklava exactly comes from. Some say that it has its origin in Central Asia. Others say that the Assyrian already were preparing Baklava in the 8th century BC and that they brought it as well to Greece. There's also the thesis that it was inventend in Persia. In the end the only thing that really matters, is that it tastes absolutely delicious. It is very sweet, so all the sweet tooths out there should be happy about this recipe.

                         Ingredients: 

                    1 package of Yufka dough

                              4oo grams of mixed nuts

                             (including almond, walnut, haselnut and pistachio )    

                              125 grams of butter 

                              125 grams of clarified butter 

                              3 egg whites 

                              a  pinch of salt 

                              100 grams of sugar

                              cinnamon 

                              vanilla extract                                                                                                                                                                                                        

                              2 cups of sugar 

                              1 cup of water 

                              lemon juice 

                              rosewater   

            

                          Preparation:                                

1.Bring the sugar and water to the boil and let it simmer for about ten minutes. Then add a dash of lemon juice and rosewater and put it to aside to cool.

 2. Seperate the egg white from the egg yolk.

 3. Add the pinch of salt to the egg white and whip it until it is stiff.

4. Put the nuts, the sugar, a dash of cinnamon and vanilla into a blender and blend it.

5.Add the nut mixture to the egg white and fold it in.

6. Melt the butter and the clarified butter.

7. Place one layer of the Yufka dough onto your baking tray and brush some of the butter mixture on it. Continue this with four more layers of the dough.

8. Then put the whole nut mixture on the layers of dough and put another layer of Yufka dough on it.

                            

9. Continue this with six more layers of Yufka dough, while always brushing butter on it. In the end you should have 5 layers at the bottom and 7 layers on top of it. You should also put something of the butter mixture on the edges of the last layer.

10. Cut lozenges into the last layers of dough and put it in the oven at 150 degrees Celsius for about thirty minutes until the Baklava has become golden brown.

11. Take it out of the oven and directly pour over the sugar sirup you've prepared before.

                                            

                                          Place it on a nice plate and enjoy !