No Measure Baklava Recipes

EASY BAKLAVA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Toss together cinnamon and nuts. Unroll phyllo and cut whole stack in half to fit the dish. Cover phyllo with a damp cloth while assembling the baklava, to keep it from drying out.
• Place two sheets of phyllo in the bottom of the prepared dish. Brush generously with butter. Sprinkle 2 to 3 tablespoons of the nut mixture on top. Repeat layers until all ingredients are used, ending with about 6 sheets of phyllo. Using a sharp knife, cut baklava (all the way through to the bottom of the dish) into four long rows, then (nine times) diagonally to make 36 diamond shapes.
• Bake in preheated oven until golden brown and crisp, about 50 minutes.
• While baklava is baking, combine sugar and water in a small saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil. Stir in honey, vanilla and lemon or orange zest; reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
• Remove the baklava from the oven and immediately spoon the syrup over it. Let cool completely before serving. Store uncovered.

BAKLAVA - NO HONEY

Steps:

• MIx finely chooped walnuts, sugar and 1 heaping T rosewater set aside.
• Render butter and skim off curdle.
• Butter cookie sheets with curdle.
• Lay 1 sheet dough & butter entirely.
• Place another sheet over this and butter the ends.
• Mound nut mixture along the short end of the dough and roll up.
• Crimp the ends of the roll and place on cookie sheet
• Place rolls tightly against each other
• When sheet is full, butter the tops.
• Diagonal cut while raw.
• Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour (brown).
• Syrup - In a sauce pan, mix 1 bottle of white Karo syrup lite with a little water and 1 heaping T rosewater. Boil.
• Apply to bakliva while hot.
• Let cooll completely before storinn in air tight plastic container. May be frozen.