Baklawa (goolash)
- 1 box phyllo dough (2 rolls)
- 2 cup ground nuts (whalnut-cashews-penuts-etc)
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 cooking spray
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp lemon
- take phyllo dough rolls out of freezer and prepare the syrup:
- dissolve sugar in water in a a pan..add lemon..put on stove a let it boil until volume is reduced to half.
- Take off stove..let cool.
- After phylloo is thawed open the roll and spread the sheets on the kitchen counter and preheat oven to 325.
- Spray all the top most sheet with cooking spray and then flip it on the other side so that you have the oil in between the first two sheets
- Mix raisin with ground nuts and start adding thr mixture at the beginning of the roll
- Start rolling the first two sheets tightly over the nut mixture till the end
- Carry the roll as it is onto a greased pyrex oven pan..cover with damp towel so that it doesn't dry.
- Repeat with all the sheets.
- After rolling all 2 phyllo tolls (40sheet =20 rolls) Carefully cut through the rolls with a sharp knife to divide each Into 4 or more rolls.
- Melt butter in microwave and cover the surface of the rolls.
- Make sure it is evenly distributed.
- Put into oven and let cook until surface is golden.
- Take out of oven and add cold syrup slowly onto each piece.
- You don't have to add all syrup.
- Syrup should saturate the baklawa but not exceed that (otherwise baklawa will be wet).
- You can put baklawa on a strain before adding syrup to make sure you remove excess syrup.
- Otherwise, you can quickly transfer bakalwa to a new serving plate to make sure they don't stay with excess syrup.
phyllo, ground nuts, raisins, cooking spray, butter, water, sugar, lemon
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/354321-baklawa-goolash (may not work)