A. 4 1/2 cups chopped walnuts ( pecan or pistachio)
1/2cup sugar ( I use 1/3cup blue agave)
B. 2 tablespoon lemon juice(if you like add zests)
1/2cup water
C. 1 cup butter (2 sticks) or brown butter
D.8 ounces filo dough 9"x14" ( thaw at room temperature about 2 hours)
Preheat the oven to 350F. Toast the nuts about 10 minutes, then chopped, mix with 1/2cup sugar.
Making brown butter: Melt butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan medium heat, there will have a lot of foam. As the butter cooked the foam will subside and the milk solids will coagulate into small but visible particles. After few minutes the particles of milk solids will brown. Immediately plunge the saucepan into a bowl of cold water to keep the butter from burning.----by James Peterson
Brush a pan with brown butter. Unroll the filo and immediately roll up and refreeze the filo you aren't using.
Place 1 sheet filo in the pan and brush with a thin brown butter or melt butter, then 3-5 more layers of filo, brush each filo. Spread 1/3 of nuts, cover with another 3-5 more filo( brush butter each filo), sprinkle another chopped nuts, then filo, then the left 1/3 nuts then 3-5 layers filo on the top. Bake for about 30 minutes or until golden brown on top.
Make the syrup. 1 cup of honey, 1/2cup water and lemon juice ( zests) in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer and stir until thick. Let cool.
Ladle the syrup over the baklava. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit for 1 hour.
4又1/2杯果仁(核桃,山核桃,開心果等等)
1/2杯糖粉(我用1/2杯的龍舌蘭糖漿)
1杯蜂蜜,2大勺檸檬汁(檸檬皮屑),1/2杯水
1杯黃油(2條)
12 ounces filo dough
烤箱開到350F,生果仁烤大概10鍾左右。把烤好的果仁壓碎。
混上1/2的糖粉。我用的1/3龍舌蘭糖漿。
2條黃油放在厚底鍋裏,在中火上融化。
有泡沫生成。再一會兒泡沫就消失了。
如果要做成棕色的黃油,就繼續加熱,直到你看到周邊變成棕色,然後立刻把鍋放在冷水裏降溫。
烤盤裏刷上融化的黃油,拿出你需要的油酥皮(剩下的立刻包好,放回冰箱。因為filo會很快就幹掉)。一層皮刷一遍黃油,用3-5層。我用的3層,感覺薄了一點。
鋪上混了糖的1/3果仁。再蓋上3-5層油酥皮(每層都要刷黃油),再來;一共三層果仁,最後上麵再鋪一層油酥皮。
第一次做的時候,沒有先劃開,直接烤,結果最後淋的糖漿不容易進去。這次先開了皮,糖漿倒是容易進去了,可是皮又不緊湊。烤箱350F烤30分鍾左右,或者到表麵深黃色。
製作糖漿:
1杯蜂蜜,1/2杯水。
2大勺檸檬汁,和皮屑。
把它們混合,在中火上煮成粘稠狀。
Baklava烤好後,把糖漿淋上去。蓋上蓋子或者保鮮膜,晾涼。
這個熱量比較高,一小塊就夠了。有糖尿病,減肥,脂肪層厚的同誌我就不建議吃。果仁可以是混合,也可以單一用。