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Baklava: Trader Joe's Heroic Baklava

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

1 pound phyllo dough
1/2 pound butter, melted

NUT FILLING:
1 1/2 pounds walnuts, toasted, coarse chopped
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

SYRUP:
1 cup honey
3/4 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 small piece lemon and orange peel
1 stick cinnamon (1")


Recipe

Combine nuts, sugar, ground cinnamon and cloves. Set aside. Combine honey, water, sugar, lemon juice, fruit peels and cinnamon stick in a saucepan. Simmer for 10 minutes. When syrup has cooled, discard peels and cinnamon stick. Set aside. Unwrap phylo dough and fold entire amound in half, like pages of a book. Keep covered with dry kitchen towel while working.

Turn over one of sheets as if opening "book". Brush with melted butter, using soft brush. Continue turning sheets and brushing with butter until 1/3 have been brushed with butter. Lay flat in bottom of a buttered 13x9 inch baking pan. Cover with 1/2 of nut filling. Brush another 1/3 of pages and place over nuts in pan, laying flat. Top with remaining filling.

Brush remaining pages and lay flat on top . Brush top sheet with remaining butter. With sharp knife, score pastry into diamonds without quite cutting through to bottom. Bake at 350ºF for 35-40 minutes or until puffed, crisp and deep golden in color. Immediately remove from oven and pour cooled syrup over pastry. Let stand for 4 hours. When cool, cut through to bottom layer in scored cuts.