RECIPE
Baklava
Desserts
Preparation time
20 minutes
Cooking time
20 minutes
Servings
4
Ingredients
- ¾ cup pistachio
- 140g butter, melted
- 8 sheets filo pastry
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup honey
- juice of half a lemon
- 5 cloves
Method
- Place pistachio nuts in a blender and blend into crumb like consistency.
- Lay a sheet of filo pastry on a clean dry bench or board and brush the whole sheet with butter.
- Sprinkle pistachio nuts all over and place another sheet of filo pastry on top. Brush with butter and sprinkle the whole sheet with pistachio nuts.
- Fold about 2cm lengthwise to start rolling the filo pastry, brushing each fold every time with butter until you have one long roll. Brush again with butter and then loosely roll into a coil, brushing all sides.
- Carefully place in the Sunbeam Pie Magic® dish. Repeat three times. Brushing any excess butter over the top of the coils.
- Close the lid, turn on and cook for 8 -10 mins.
- Turn the coils over to cook the other side for 8 - 10 mins.
- In a saucepan place sugar, water, honey, lemon juice and cloves and bring to the boil, over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 3 mins. Set aside.
- Plate baklava in bowls and pour over syrup, sprinkle with remaining pistachio nuts.
Cook's Tip
Change up the flavours by swapping out the pistachios to other nuts such as almonds or walnuts. - and replace the lemon juice in the syrup with either orange or rosewater.