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Directions:Mix walnuts, sugar, blossom water, nutmeg and cinnamon together.
Unroll fillo dough and cover with a slightly damp cloth.
Remove 2 sheets of fillo at a time and lat flay on a flat surface, portrait style. Brush with butter. Add 3rd sheet of fillo and brush with butter. Add 1 cup of nut mixture to the bottom of the buttered sheets. Spread the nuts to form a heaping layer that spreads from one end to the next. Bring up the bottom layers of the sheets to cover the nuts. Roll upwards to form a log. Tuck in the ends. You should be able to make about 5 logs. Place logs on buttered baking sheet. Make 10 slices across without actually cutting all the way through.
Bake in 325° oven for 20 minutes. Drizzle each log with *atir and cut out the pieces.
*Atir recipe is listed separately |
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Notes: Baklawa is a very popular Middle Eastern dessert, very similar to the Greek dessert called Baklava. Unlike baklava, which is sweetened by honey, baklawa is sweetened by atir, a sugar, water, and blossom water syrup. Baklawa can be made in different shapes. However, my mother often made the log shape style and then cut the log in approximately 10 pieces.
Rolling the fillo dough can be tricky. If you overfill the logs, they harden after baking. If you don’t fill them enough, you lose the flavor of the nuts. Be careful with how much atir you add. Too much atir can drown the fillo dough and make it get soggy.
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