Baclava

I had a phyllo sheets and I had bag of walnuts and I had a craving for sweet baclava...
Well put that together and the fact that I own a Droid and can find a recipe for virtually anything really fast, and here I was experimenting with what I found online.
First I could not believe how easy the recipe sounded, I thought they missed something, but I did try anyway. It turned out awesome.
Thinking "This is so darn easy" I made anther batch. And this time I shared. Turns out I shared with just the right person. She does her own as well and even simpler than what I tried so far. I talked to my friend from Turkey who told me how they do it there. And came out with my own recipe - a combination of all the ones I heard. That does not mean I will really stick to it in the future, but I really like simplicity of it.

1 roll 1/2 package of phyllo dough (20 sheets)
2.5 cups ground walnuts
1 tbsp cinnamon (or what you like)
1/2 tsp coriander ( really optional - I made this one up)

Mix walnuts and spices.
Layer 6-8 sheets on pan to start.
Sprinkle with walnuts.
Layer 2 sheets (or whatever sticks together at the moment - trust me no one will notice).
Repeat above steps until you run out of walnuts.
Layer remaining sheets on top (if you ran out of sheets first that will be just fine, but they look more usual when topped with phyllo sheets).

Now CUT TO SQUARES. This is important, so that juices get down into individual pieces.

drizzle over evenly
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter melted - or even less than that

put into oven 350F for 15-20min. Until it smells nice - that is how I usually notice it's done. The top should be golden brown.

While it is in the oven dissolve:(you probably do not want to boil honey for nutrition preservation)
2/3 cup water
2/3 cup honey
1 tbsp lemon juice

When baclava is out of the oven, drizzle the honey mixture over it.
It will make sounds of water hitting hot pot - I really like that sound.

let it cool off a bit.

I used to cut it into triangles during the first cutting - but now I wait until baclava cools down. I like to get bigger piece first and it is so much easier to cut it into triangles later.

Enjoy and share.

Why share? I did go thorough the math on this one (out of curiosity mostly) and it looks like each triangle has about 70-75 calories (you should have about 24 squares or 48 triangles), so if you gobble up the whole pan, you should be definitely set for a day or two, not needing much more to eat.
But if you top it off with some vitamins - you should have quite balanced meal - lots of proteins and sugars and fats (even lots of omega-3) - hey who says we are not eating healthy.