Amira's Baklava Recipe

Recipe for the Syrup

Ingredients:
-2 cups of sugar
-1 1/4 cup of water
-1/2 lime (squeezed)
-1/4 spoon vanilla

Directions:
1. Mix together 2 cups of white sugar and 1 1/4 cups of water on the stove top.
2. Squeeze 1/2 a lime into the mixture (the lime allows it not to solidify).
3. Leave it to boil on medium heat for 20-30min
4. Add 1/4 spoon of vanilla to the mixture and then turn off the heat
5. Leave the syrup to cool completely

Recipe for the Baklava

Ingredients:
-3/4 cup canola oil
-2 ounces butter
-baking sheet sprayed with PAM
-one box of Filo (or Phillo) Pastry
-2 cups crushed walnuts mixed with sugar and cinnamon for the filling

Directions:
1. In a small pan mix 3/4 cup of canola oil and 2 ounces of butter and heat together over medium low heat (make sure its really hot, but don't burn it).
2. Spray a baking sheet with PAM and then take half the package of the Filo pastry onto the pan
3. Spread the walnut mixture filling evenly over the half of Filo pastry you laid down
4. Place the other half of the Film pastry on top
5. With a sharp knife, cut lines diagonally in equal portions across the tray
6. Drizzle the hot oil/butter mixture all over the top of the Film Pastry
7. Heat oven to 375 degrees and bake the Filo pastry for 10 minutes
8. Turn the oven down to 295 degrees and leave for a half an hour until it is a golden colour
9. Take it out of the oven and spoon the cold syrup over the pastry immediately and then leave it to cool down

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