Newspaper shape baklava

Baklava is a kind of crunchy sweet and rich pastry made with filo pastry and filled with chopped nuts such as: almonds, walnuts, pistachio and hazelnuts and spices like, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.
In Iran there is drier version of baklava as well that is cooked in diamond- shaped and flavoured with rose water.
Baklava is very popular in Iran, Turkey, Greece, countries around Persian Gulf, Republic Azerbaijan, Armenia and African countries such as: Libya, Tunisia and Algeria.

Ingredients

Filo pastry sheets
300g unsalted butter, melted
400g walnuts, finely chopped
400g almonds, finely chopped
1tbsp cinnamon powder
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
1/2 tsp nutmeg powder
1/2 tsp clove powder
1/4 cup sugar

Recipe for the syrup

1 ½ cup sugar
1/4 cup honey
3/4 cup water
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1tbsp lemon juice
1 ½tsp rose water or orange blossom

Preparation
Preheat the oven to 160C.
For making sugar syrup,add water, honey, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon powder in a pot. Mix ingredients until sugar dissolves. Bring it to a boil and turn off the heat. Add Rost water, give stir and set aside to cool down.

Add cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, clove and sugar to the chopped nuts and mix together, and set aside.
Lay one sheet of filo pastry on working table and brush with melted butter. Then, spread the chopped nuts over pastry.Then pinch the filo pastry lengthwise (as you see in the images). Spread chopped nuts on the filo pastry and fold it .

Grease the baking tray and Place rolled pastry in the baking tray. Cut it into small square shapes. Brush with melted butter. Put the tray in the preheated oven and allow to bake for about 45-50 minutes or until golden brown. Once baklava is ready, Pour chilled sugar syrup over warm baklava and garnish with some chopped nuts. Let baklava set in sugar syrup for 5-6 hours and serve it.

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