Baklava (using puff pastry). Lay one sheet on a lightly floured surface and brush with melted butter. Combine diced walnuts, cinnamon, salt, and orange zest in a bowl, then spread evenly over. Roll out puff pastry,egg wash,add dry fruits mixture,fold and press,cut with cutter.

This version of easy quick baklava recipe can be considered the fastest ,easiest and least time consuming. Total prepping and baking time about an hour. The result is very good looking,glossy and of course tasty pastry,one of my childhood favorites. You can cook Baklava (using puff pastry) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Baklava (using puff pastry)

Prepare 1/3 cup of melted butter.
Prepare 2 cups of crushed nuts (pistachio,walnut,cashew and etc.).
It's 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
You need 1 pack of puff pastry or phyllo sheets.
It's of For the syrup.
You need 1/2 cup of honey.
It's 3/4 cup of water.
It's 2 tbsp of lemon juice.
You need 1 cup of granulated sugar.

Place the pastry onto a baking sheet. It's nice recipe but baklava is a Turkish dessert not Greek. They learned it from Turks in Ottoman era. Turks make baklava in their special days.

Baklava (using puff pastry) step by step

If phyllo pastry, brush with butter every sheets until you reach the 5th sheets and then put the nuts..
If puff pastry, brush butter and put some nuts on every layer of the sheet.
Preheat the oven at 180°C for 15mins..
Cut pastry into diagonal shape and then bake for 1hour and 15mins..
Prepare the syrup by mixing all the syrup ingredients in a saucepan until boiled. Then let it cool for a while.
Lastly, once the pastry is cooked, spread the syrup and garnish with the remaining nuts.

Gaziantep city's baklava very famous in the world and there are even Turkish baklava stores in. and I had so much trouble using a pastry brush to brush the butter on because it kept crunching up the . Place the sugar and water in a saucepan and heat on the stovetop, stirring occasionally, until sugar dissolves. Add honey, orange extract, and cloves. Combine all the filling ingredients in a small bowl and set aside. Unroll puff pastry on a lightly floured cutting board.