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Baklawa or baklava is a generic term for pastries made with flakey fillo pastry, crushed nuts, sweet sugar syrup or honey and plenty of unsalted butter or ghee (clarified butter).
It’s served all over the Middle East right to the Mediterranean and the Balkans.
They can be scented with orange blossom water or rosewater, or in Greece, cinnamon.
While most bakers use commercially prepared fillo, you can make your own from scratch using a pastry of semolina and water, rolled several times with melted butter and then stretched to a fine sheet.
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