🇹🇷 How to Make Baklava

Craving Baklava? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Baklava at home, in about 1 hr 30 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1 pack filo pastry (about 400g)
• 250g butter, melted and clarified if you can
• 300g pistachios or walnuts, finely chopped
• 1 tsp cinnamon (optional, and contested)
• Syrup: 400g sugar, 300ml water, 1 tbsp lemon juice

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Make the syrup, simmer 15 min, and cool it completely. This is the one rule baklava does not forgive.
2. Layer 10 buttered filo sheets in the tin, brushing every single one. Skimping here gives you a solid brick.
3. Scatter half the nuts, add 5 more buttered sheets, the rest of the nuts, then 10 more sheets on top.
4. Cut all the way through into diamonds BEFORE baking. Afterwards it shatters.
5. Pour any remaining butter over and bake at 170°C for 50 min until uniformly deep gold.
6. Cold syrup over hot baklava, straight from the oven. Leave 6 hrs, uncovered, before eating. Never refrigerate it.