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Baklava Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 lb. chopped walnuts, almonds, or pistachios
1 Tbl. sugar
1 C zwieback, ground
1 lb. butter, melted
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 lb. phylo dough

Syrup:
1 1/2 C water
3 C granulated sugar
juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350º F.

Process Zwieback crackers in food processer or blender with cinnamon and sugar. Add walnuts, almonds, or pistachios (or any combination thereof) and pulse a few seconds more.

Note - Do not process until nuts are ground - be sure to leave some texture, stopping to stir with spatula if needed to obtain even results and only until nuts are coarsely chopped.

Brush bottom of 14-20" pan with melted butter and place on pastry sheet. Brush again with melted butter, repeating process until 4 pastry sheets line the bottom of the pan. Brush the 4th layer with butter and sprinkle with nut mixture. Add another phylo sheet, brush with melted butter; sprinkle with nut mixture.

Repeat process until all ingredients are used, finishing with 4 pastry sheets on top. Brush top with butter and cut into diagonal shapes.

Bake at 350º F for 1 hour 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool before topping with syrup.

Syrup:
Boil syrup for 10 minutes. Pour hot syrup over cold baklava and leave overnight in baking pan.

 

 

 

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