Salted honey baklava

Baklava

Name: Baklava
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: Makes 20 squares
Cuisine: Greek, Turkish
Ingredients: 50g walnuts finely chopped; 50g almonds finely chopped; 150g pistachios finely chopped; 50g ground almonds; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp ground cardamom; 100g melted unsalted butter plus extra for the tin; 2 x 270g packs filo sheets trimmed to fit the tin; 70g unsalted butter; 100g soft light brown sugar; 200ml runny honey; 1 lemon zested and 1/2 juiced; 1 tsp sea salt flakes plus extra to serve; 1 orange zested and juiced

Janine Ratcliffe

Published: September 7, 2021 at 10:25 AM

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Makes 20 squares

Easy

Total time: 1 hr and 30 mins

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Try our version of baklava, drenched it in a salted honey sauce. This sweet and sticky filo pastry treat comes packed with four types of nut, cardamom and cinnamon

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Ingredients

Nutrition

FILLING

50g walnuts

finely chopped
50g almonds

finely chopped
150g pistachios

finely chopped
50g ground almonds
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground cardamom
100g melted unsalted butter

plus extra for the tin
2 x 270g packs filo sheets

trimmed to fit the tin

SYRUP

70g unsalted butter
100g soft light brown sugar
200ml runny honey
1 lemon

zested and 1/2 juiced
1 tsp sea salt flakes

plus extra to serve
1 orange

zested and juiced

Nutrition: per serving

kcal285
fat15.7g
saturates5.3g
carbs29.3g
sugars13.8g
fibre2g
protein5.6g
salt0.7g

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. To make the syrup, melt the butter and sugar in a pan and simmer until the sugar has dissolved. Add the honey and simmer for a few more minutes. Pour in 250ml of water, the lemon juice and zest, salt and the orange juice and zest. Simmer for 15-20 minutes or until the syrup has thickened slightly.
step 2

Add all the chopped nuts, ground almonds, cinnamon, cardamom and 50g of the melted butter to a bowl and mix.
step 3

To assemble the baklava, brush a 20cm x 30cm deep baking dish with melted butter. Brush 4 of the filo sheets with melted butter then layer up in the bottom of the dish. Add 1/3 of the filling mix, top with another 4 sheets of buttered filo and add another 1/3 of the mix. Top with another 4 buttered sheets, then the remaining mixture and finish with a final layer of 4 buttered sheets.
step 4

Using a sharp knife, gently cut a classic criss-cross baklava pattern into the pastry all the way through to the bottom layer. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until the baklava is deep golden and crisp. Remove the baklava from the oven and drizzle over the salted honey syrup, then put back in the oven for a further 5 minutes to crisp up. Top with extra sea salt and leave to cool before serving.

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Janine Ratcliffe in a short sleeved long dress sitting on a chair beneath palm trees on a balcony

Janine RatcliffeFood director

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