Ashraf’s Baklava

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    40 to 50

    (150 to 200 pieces of baklava)
    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

Appears in
Third Culture Cooking: Classic Recipes for a New Generation

By Zaynab Issa

Published 2025

  • About

Weddings in my family are incomplete without a tray of my grand-mother’s sweet and flaky homemade baklava. Ideal for serving a crowd, one tray makes more than 150 pieces of baklava. You might be thinking, “Who would ever need to feed that many people?” Well, Ashraf does. It’s not unusual for my grandmother to find herself in situations where she needs to feed many mouths. Weddings in our family have upwards of three hundred people, and feeding them home-cooked food is just