Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Baklava is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have baklava using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Make ready 400 gms chopped nuts
- Make ready 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Make ready 16 ounce package phyllo dough
- Prepare 1 cup melted butter
- Prepare 1 cup white sugar
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Get 1/2 cup honey
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp grated lemon zest
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:
- Pre heat the oven at 108˚C.
- Trim filo pastry sheets according to the tray.
- Grease an aluminum tray with butter and place 2-3 pastry sheets on it.
- Apply butter over the filo pastry and repeat the process till you complete layering 10 sheets.
- Sprinkle the walnuts over it and drizzle butter. Place 2-3 more filo pastry sheets over it and brush butter on top and repeat till process till you complete layering another 10 sheet.
- Sprinkle almonds and repeat the same process with pistachios till all the sheets are used up and the tray is full.
- Cut into diamonds and bake in a preheated oven at 180 for 25 – 30 minutes.
- Heat a deep nonstick pan. Add sugar and 1 cup water and the juice of half a lemon.
- Stir till sugar dissolves and cook till it thickens.
- Pour the sugar syrup over the baked filo sheet and let it rest for 5 -7 minutes.
- 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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