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Rose baklava

Serve sweet, sticky squares of this cinnamon and almond-filled pastry as a light dessert to end a Greek dinner party or Sunday roast. - by Chantal Walsh
  • 08 Feb 2016
Rose baklava
Cook: 105 Minutes - medium - Serves 16 - Vegetarian - pregnancy-safe
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Serve sweet, sticky squares of this cinnamon and almond-filled pastry as a light dessert to end a Greek dinner party or Sunday roast.

Ingredients

Greek yoghurt, to serve

For the syrup

300 g golden caster sugar

juice ½ lemon

3 tbsp rosewater (not concentrated, see tip below)

1 large cinnamon stick

For the baklava

75 ml olive oil

500 g chopped almonds

75 g golden caster sugar

2 tbsp ground cinnamon

½ tsp ground cloves

250g- 270 g pack filo pastry sheets

150 ml rosewater (not concentrated, see tip below)

Method

  1. Put all the ingredients for the syrup in a heavy-based saucepan, and add 400ml cold water. Stir over a gentle heat to dissolve the sugar, then bring to a steady simmer for 10 mins or until it becomes slightly syrupy. Leave to cool.
  2. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan. Lightly brush the sides and base of a 23 × 33cm shallow ovenproof dish with a little of the oil.
  3. For the baklava, mix together the almonds, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and rosewater.
  4. Place 1 sheet of filo in the bottom of the dish and brush liberally with oil. (If the filo sheets are very large, cut them all in half before using.) Place another one on top and coat again with oil. Repeat this process of layering and brushing with oil until half of the filo sheets are used up. Now spread on the filling and cover with the remaining filo sheets, layering and oiling as before. Be sure to brush the top sheet with oil too. Score the top to form diamond-shaped slices.
  5. Bake in the oven for about 30 mins, increasing the heat for the last 5 mins to 200C/180C fan to give the pastry a light golden colour.
  6. Remove from the oven and immediately pour half the cooled rose syrup over the hot pastry. Leave to rest for at least 30 mins so the syrup can seep through the layers. Serve with big dollops of Greek yoghurt and the remaining syrup.
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