Recipe: Hazelnut Fig Baklava
Categories: Desserts- d, Z- high hol, Z- sukkot
Yield: 1 Servings
HONEY SYRUP 1 1/2 c honey
3/4 c Water
1 1/2 ts Grated orange zest
1 1/2 tb Fresh lemon juice
--------------------FILLING-------------------------
1/3 c Fresh orange juice
9 Calamyrna figs; (9 ounces)
-- cut into 1/4" pieces
3 c Coarsely ground toasted
-- skinned hazelnuts
1 ts Ground cinnamon
1 ts Nutmeg
1 ts Cardamom
1 c Unsalted butter; melted
1 pk Phyllo dough (1 pound);
-- thawed if frozen
- Honey Syrup: in medium saucepan, bring to a boil honey, water and
zest. Reduce heat to low, simmer 20 minutes or until mixture is reduced
to 2 cups. Remove from heat; stir in lemon juice. Let cool.
- Filling: Meanwhile in large bowl, combine orange juice and figs. Let
stand 30 minutes, stirring once or twice, until figs have absorbed
juice. Add remaining filling ingredients.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Brush 13 x 9 x 2- inch baking pan with
some melted butter. Unroll phyllo, cut in half crosswise. Keep covered
with waxed paper and damp towel while working with sheets. Place 1 sheet
phyllo in bottom of buttered pan; brush with butter. Repeat with 9 more
sheets phyllo, brushing each layer with butter and stacking in pan.
Scatter with 1/2 cup nut mixture over top of phyllo.
- Top with 2 sheets phyllo , buttering each. Repeat layers of 1/2 cup
nut mixture and 2 sheets buttered phyllo until nut mixture is used up
(about 9 more layers.)
- Finish top of baklava with 5 sheets buttered phyllo. With knife, cut
phyllo layers crosswise into 6 (2- inch wide) strips. Cut each strip on
diagonal to form 4 equal "diamonds" (you'll have a small triangle at
ends of each strip.)
- Bake 1 hour or until light golden and crisp. Remove baking pan to
wire rack; from saucepan spoon over cooled honey syrup over top. Let
cool at least 1 hour.
McCall's Magazine October 1998 p. 150 Article titled: "Honey Bunch"
Recipes by Gina Noonan and Frank P. Melodia Recipe by: McCall's Magazine
October 1998 p. 150
Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest by Linda Shapiro <lss@coconet.com> on Sep
22, 1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.
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