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Baklava Under One Hour

Want to make Baklava Under an hour, so hurry and go to your supermarket and buy a packet of phyllo pastry sheets. Follow my quick and easy baklava recipe, it will be ready in under an hour. Baklava is made with phyllo pastry sheets filled with crushed pistachios, walnuts and sugar. Then this multilayer phyllo pastry is soaked with melted pure ghee or melted butter and drenched in sugar syrup. Enjoy this crispy and sweet treat.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings: 4 people
Course: Dessert, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: American, Mediterranean
Calories: 250
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

Ingredients for Sugar Syrup
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 3/4 cup Water
  • 1 tsp Lemon juice
Phyllo Pastry Sheets
  • 1 Packet Phyllo pastry sheets
Ingredients for Baklava filling
  • 1 cup Pistachios
  • 1 cup Walnuts
  • 1/2 cup Sagar

Method
 

Instructions for Baklava fillings
  1. Take one cup Pistachios.
  2. Take one cup Walnuts.
  3. Take 1/2 cup sugar.
  4. Take one food processor, add pistachios, walnuts and sugar and pulse it together.
  5. Keep the pulsed nuts aside in a plate.
Instructions for Sugar Syrup
  1. Take one deep pot, add one cup sugar and 3/4 cup water. Cook sugar syrup on medium high heat until it boils then reduce the temperature to medium heat and cook for 6 minutes.
  2. At the end of the syrup cooking process add 1 teaspoon lemon juice, mix together and turn off the heat. Keep the sugar syrup aside to cool it.
Instruction for making Baklava
  1. Take the one packet of phyllo pastry sheet and unfold it.
  2. Cut the phyllo pastry sheet into half.
  3. Lay the half phyllo pastry sheet in a baking tray.
  4. Add pulsed/ crushed pistachios, walnut nut and sugar filling on top of the half phyllo pastry sheet.
  5. Pat the pulsed nuts on phyllo pastry and then add other half of phyllo pastry to it.
  6. Cut the nut filled phyllo pastry into squares.
  7. Take a 3/4 cup melted ghee.
  8. Pour the melted ghee on top of square cut phyllo pastry.
  9. Spread the ghee on all over the pieces.
  10. After adding ghee, put the baklava try in the oven at 350 degree Fahrenheit for 50 minutes.
  11. Keep the baklava tray in for another additional 5 minutes to bring the golden color to baklava.
  12. Take the baklava tray out of the oven and immediately pour sugar syrup on the hot baklava.
  13. Let the sugar syrup drenched baklava cool it down for 15 minutes.
  14. Baklava is ready to eat.