Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baklava is a sweet dessert made of layers of phyllo filled with chopped walnuts and pistachios, soaked with honey syrup. Baklava or baklawa is a rich, sweet pastry featured in many cuisines of the former Ottoman countries. It is made of layers of phyllo dough filled with chopped nuts, such as walnuts, almonds, or pistachios, and sweetened with syrup or honey.
Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Baklava is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have baklava using 20 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Get For dough
- Take 1 Egg
- Get 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 cup milk- water mixture
- Get 4 cup All-purpose flour(maida)
- Prepare 2 +1/2 Tsp Baking powder
- Get 1 pinch Salt
- Take 2 cup Butter
- Prepare 2 Tbsp Corn starch
- Make ready For Honey Syrup
- Get 1 Cup sugar
- Get 3/4 cup water
- Take 1/2 cup honey
- Take 4 cloves
- Get 1/4 Tsp Vanilla essence
- Prepare 2 Tbsp lemon juice
- Take For filling
- Prepare 1 cups Walnuts (crushed)
- Take 1 cup Pistachio (crushed)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
Baklava is a Mediterranean dessert with layers of phyllo dough, nuts and honey. I've also included two authentic baklava recipes for you to try: a fancy and more involved recipe as well as a simple. Not to be confused with balaclava or Balaklava. The iconic Baklava is astonishingly straight forward to make!
Instructions to make Baklava:
- In a large bowl add flour, vegetable oil, egg, salt, baking powder and knead a smooth dough with water and milk mixture. And rest it for 15 minutes.
- Divide dough in 4 portions and make balls of each portion and further divide it into 5 balls.
- Cover with plastic wrap or damp cloth preventing it from drying out.
- Mix cornstarch and flour together in a bowl. - Dust the workplace with cornstarch mix and the roll the ball into circle. And set aside.
- Stack them on each other and dust each layer with cornstarch mix so they don’t stick together.
- Now gently roll all five layers together until they’re paper thin for about 10-12 inches in diameter.
- Directions For Honey Syrup
- In a pan heat water, add sugar, honey, cloves, lemon and mix well.
- Boil on medium heat until sugar is dissolved and stir continuously.
- Remove from heat and let it cool.
- Directions for Baklava
- In a bowl mix walnut, pistachio and cinnamon powder well.
- In a baking pan place 10 dough sheets on one another and butter each sheet well.
- Add a layer of crushed nuts, cover it with five more dough sheet and sprinkle crushed nuts on each sheet.
- Now cut it into diagonal shape before baking. - Bake at 160 degree for 1 hour or until the top gets golden.
- Remove from oven and immediately pour cooled honey syrup evenly over the hot baklava.
- Let it settle for 4 to 6 hours and serve.
The iconic Baklava is my all time favourite pastry that I can't get enough of. You'll love how homemade Baklava is not overly sweet and. Baklava is a delicious phyllo pastry popular in Middle Eastern countries. In baklava, layers of crisp phyllo dough alternate with a sugary spiced nut mixture, and the whole thing is then soaked in fragrant. Baklava uses phyllo dough stacked with honey and nuts to make a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone will love.
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