Fillo dough - 1 package |
Finely chopped walnuts or pecans - 3 cups |
Butter - 1 stick (unsalted is supposed to work best) |
Honey - 1 cup (room temperature) [I use about 3/4 cup honey] |
Brown sugar - about 1/4 package (more or less, depending on how sweet you like it) |
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- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Melt butter.
- Place 1 to 2 sheets of Fillo dough in the pan and then brush with butter. (Is supposed to work best if you butter every sheet [will require more butter])
- Repeat step three until the dough is stacked 12 sheets thick (or half the fillo has been used).
- Sprinkle half the brown sugar over the dough.
- Spread walnuts evenly.
- Sprinkle remainder of brown sugar.
- Repeat step three until all the dough has been used up. Ensure you brush on butter after placing the last layer of dough.
- Using a sharp knife, cut the baklava into diagonal or rectangular pieces. (You’ll have to hold the dough in place because it will move around.)
- Lower the oven temperature to 375 degrees, place baklava in oven for twenty minutes. (This is to brown the dough.)
- Take the baklava from the oven and apply the honey. Ensure the edges and cuts are adequately covered as this is how the mixture gets to the lower layers.
- Allow to cool.
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You may not need all the honey. To much honey will make the Baklava soggy. |
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