Baklava

Ingredients

• Ready-made baklava dough
• Nuts of your choice
• Orange blossom water
• Rose water
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• Ghee
• Sugar syrup (qatr)
• For making baklava with almonds using an easy homemade recipe, here is the link: How to Make Baklava with Almonds

Method

1. Leave the ready-made baklava dough aside until the ice melts if it is frozen, then start preparing the filling.
2. Grind cashews, almonds, or walnuts as desired, but be sure to grind them very finely. Add orange blossom water or rose water, or both, to the ground nuts, along with 1 tablespoon sugar, and mix well until you get a cohesive mixture.
3. Roll out the baklava dough and brush each sheet with a little ghee. Place ghee between each layer of baklava dough.
4. That is, place the first layer, then ghee, then another sheet of baklava dough on top, then brush it with ghee, then a third sheet, and so on.
5. Prepare the filling and place some of it לאורך the dough, then roll it into a cylinder and cut it as shown in the picture. (Do not use too much filling inside the dough so it does not spill out of the baklava sheets.)
6. Arrange the baklava pieces in an oven tray and pour a generous amount of ghee over them. Bake in the oven until golden brown on both the bottom and top.
7. Prepare the syrup. When the baklava pieces are browned, remove any excess ghee and pour the syrup over them while they are still hot so they absorb it well.