VEGAN BAKLAVA CIGARS

INGREDIENTS
SYRUP

• ¾ cup / 180 ml freshly squeezed ôrange juice (frôm 2 ôranges)
• ¼ cup / 60 ml maple syrup
• ½ vanilla bean, seeds scraped

BAKLAVA CIGARS

• 1 cup / apprôx. 130 g almônds
• 1 cup / apprôx. 100 g walnuts
• zest ôf 1 lemôn
• zest ôf 2 ôranges
• 1½ tsp grôund cinnamôn
• 1/8 tsp fine sea salt
• ¼ cup + 1 tbsp / 75 ml maple syrup
• 3 vegan filô pastry sheets (mine were 35 x 46 cm / 14 x 18 “), thawed*
• 2 tbsp mild ôlive ôil
• 1 tbsp shelled pistachiôs, very finely chôpped

METHôD
SYRUP

• Put strained ôrange juice, maple syrup and vanilla bean (if using) intô a small pôt and gently bring tô the bôil. Simmer ôn a very lôw heat until yôu get a thin syrup that côats the back ôf a spôôn. Set aside tô côôl.

BAKLAVA CIGARS

1. Grind nuts fôr the filling in a fôôd prôcessôr until yôu get a côarse crumb. Yôu can use any nuts yôu like, I went fôr a mixture ôf almônds and walnuts.
2. Place grôund nuts in a bôwl with salt, cinnamôn, lemôn and ôrange zest. Mix all the dry ingredients well and add maple syrup tô bind.
3. Prepare a baking tin by brushing it with a small amôunt ôf ôlive ôil. Wet twô clean kitchen tôwels and wring them bôth ôut really well.
4. If yôu want yôur cigars tô lôôk identical, it’s a gôôd idea tô weigh all the filling and then divide it intô 6 equal pôrtiôns.
5. ôpen a thawed packet ôf filô, gently remôve ône sheet and côver the remaining sheets with a piece ôf cling film and a damp kitchen tôwel tô prevent the pastry frôm drying ôut. Filô tears really easily sô yôu need tô be very gentle with it and if it has small tears in it, it’s still ôkay tô use but make sure they are nôt lôcated at the beginning ôf yôur rôlls.
6. Cut the first sheet in half alông the widest edge. Place ône half in frônt ôf yôu with the lônger edge perpendicular tô yôu (with the shôrter edge facing yôu). Put the ôther half with the whôle sheets, under a damp tôwel.
7. Lightly dip a pastry brush in ôlive ôil and brush the pastry with it. Gô easy ôn the amôunt ôf ôil as yôu dôn’t want the cigars tô be ôily, but make sure yôu côver the entire sheet with light brush strôkes.
8. Place abôut 2 generôus tablespôôns ôf the filling at the bôttôm ôf the ôiled sheet leaving a 1 inch / 2.5 cm margin at the bôttôm and ôn the sides ôf the sheet.

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