easy baklava

Super thin baklava leaves filled with walnuts and sweetened with baklava syrup to make the best Turkish baklava recipe.

Easy Turkish Baklava Recipe

phyllo dough (mine has 25 sheets), thawed

unsalted butter, melted (at room temperature not hot)

walnuts, chopped

pistachio,

sugar

water

lemon

Thaw the phyllo dough overnight in the fridge and then let it sit on the counter for about half an hour. Put it aside.

Prepare the syrup. Put the syrup ingredients in a pot. Heat until it boils. Let it simmer over medium low heat for 15 minutes and cool completely.

Trim the phyllo sheets to fit your baking pan. I used 25 sheets in this recipe and trim them all together. Cover them with a damp cloth so that the sheets won’t dry out when you are working. Each time you place a phyllo sheet into the pan, make sure you cover the rest. They can easily dry out otherwise.

Butter the bottom and the sides of a 9x13 baking pan.

Place one phyllo sheet in the pan and brush it with melted butter. Place the second phyllo over it and butter it too. Repeat this until you have 5 sheets in total.

Spread ½ cup walnuts over the 5th sheet evenly.

Repeat this until you have 4 layers of walnuts. Top the 4th layer of walnuts with 5 phyllo sheets, buttering each. Make sure you butter the top as well.

Using a sharp knife, cut the raw baklava into vertical strips and then cut diagonally. Make sure you cut it all the way to the bottom of the pan. Bake it at 390F for 30 minutes or until tops are golden.

Remove it from oven and using a ladle, pour cooled syrup over hot baklava. Let it sit uncovered for 4-5 hours so that the syrup spreads well into the layers.

I'm craving for baklava so badly now! Your pictures make it look really easy to make. Thanks for the recipe and the step by step pictures!

My favorite dessert in the world. Seriously, this looks amazing. I have never even attempted to make baklava, but reading through your post I think I can do it. 
Thanks for sharing.

I love baklava! Looks so delicious and perfect for parties!

Hands down for this recipe! I have already made it twice this week and my fiancee with his cousin just love it so much (both from Turkey). It's easy yet so tasty and authentic, so thanks again. Living in a small Canadian mountain town, it's tricky to find a good baklava. I'll be making this again very soon.

Thanks a lot for the detailed recipe
I used ghee instead of butter , so yummy and smells wonderful,  I used walnuts and raisins for the filling,  it was the second best baklava after the pistachio filled one i had in Istanbul.

This looks great. I was in Turkey during Desert Storm. I was wondering if you have the recipe for the flat bread that they had at food places around the base? It was so good  and would love to make it for my family.

Baklava is a wonderful dessert. Pistachio, Walnut, Plain One is Delicious.

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