Maso Recipe

Dessert

Baklava

Ingredients needed:

1 kg of thin koras

400 g of nuts

600 g of cooking oil

1250 g of sugar

How to prepare:

Grease the baking pan.

Put 1 kora in the baking pan, pour some oil on it, then put another kora on top of it, pour some oil and continue the same way until you use 10 koras. All over the 10-th kora spread half of sliced nuts and then pour some oil over them.

Then put another 10 koras over the nuts, the same way that you have put the first ten koras. Pour oil on top of everything and cut the baklava in cube and diamond pieces. Put the baklava in warm oven.

When the baklava is half-baked, decrease temperature at 100 degrees and continue baking for another 15-20 minutes.

Take the baklava out from the oven and wait until it cools.

Add sugar in 2 l of water and boil it.

Take it of the temperature and wait for a while until the sherbet is thickened.

Pour the sherbet over the baklava. Cover the baklava with another baking pan

Ravanija

Ingredients needed:

- 5 eggs

- 1 cup sugar

- 2 cups flour

- 1 cup desiccated coconut

- 1 cup milk

- 1 sachet or 2 tsp. baking powder

- a few drops of vanilla essence

For the syrup:

- 2 1/2 cups of water

- 2 1/2 cups of sugar

- cinnamon

With the mixer we beat up the eggs with the sugar for about 5-6 mins until they become a thick substance. Then we add one by one the rest of the ingredients and we continue to beat up until we have a smooth - not very thick dough.

We spread some butter in a baking tray, we put the dough in the baking tray and we put it in the oven for 45 mins approx. (150-175°C, Gas mark 6) until it becomes brown on the top.

Then, we let it cool down while we prepare the syrup. We put the water, the sugar and the cinnamon in a pan and we let them come to the boil. We let them boil for about 5 mins or until the syrup starts thickening. We take the pan of the hob and we soak the "Ravanija" with the syrup, making...