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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Turkish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Open your phyllo and lay it out on a tray with a damp towel ontop to prevent it from drying! | 2. Melt your shortening with 2 tbsp of water you can substitute it with butter. | 3. Brush a cookie sheet with some of the butter water mixture. | 4. Add one sheet of phyllo and brush some of the mixture ontop repeat with 5-7 sheets. | 5. Finely chop nuts,coconut,2tbps of cinnamon and 3tbsp of sugar(if preferred with a food processor! | 6. Add nut mixture onto the phyllo pastry. | 7. Add the remaining phyllo/butter on top of the nuts brush the top with some more butter. | 8. Cut it into the sizes and shapes you want and bake for 30-45 minutes or until golden brown at 400 F or 220°C. | 9. On a nonstick pan add water sugar corn syrup or honey and 1 large cinnamon stick boil until it becomes a thick sauce like consistency and stir in a tbsp of butter stir until butter has melted. | 10. Let both the sauce and baklava cool for about 30 minutes pour over sauce and enjoy! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
phyllo pastry	15	sheets		-	-	-	-
shortening	2	cups		3624.4	0.0	0.0	410.0
water	2	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
water	3	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
honey	1	cup		-	-	-	-
sugar	2	cups		1611.96	403.19199999999995	0.0	0.0
pecan				-	-	-	-
cinnamon	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
sugar	3	tablespoons		1611.96	403.19199999999995	0.0	0.0
coconut	2	cups	unsweetened	566.4	24.368000000000002	5.327999999999999	53.583999999999996
coconut	1	cup		566.4	24.368000000000002	5.327999999999999	53.583999999999996
cinnamon	1	stick		-	-	-	-
butter	1	tablespoon		85.5	3.9285	2.6715	7.2

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.