Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Baklava is something which I have loved my whole life.
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 get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have baklava using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Get 150 Grams Walnuts
- Prepare 100 Grams Almonds , peeled
- Prepare 75 Grams Pistachio
- Prepare 200 Grams Sugar
- Take 0.5 Teaspoon Cinnamon Ground
- Take 250 Grams Butter
- Take 500 Grams Fillo Sheets
- Get 125 Millilitres Honey
- Prepare 150 Millilitres Water
- Make ready 1 Lemon
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:
- Coarsely grind or chop the walnuts, almonds and pistachio nuts.
- Mix the walnuts, almonds, 50g of the pistachio nuts, the cinnamon and 4 tbsp. of sugar.
- Melt the butter in a pan.
- Cut the fillo leaves to the size of your baking pan by stacking them on top of each other, putting the pan on top of them and cutting around it with a sharp knife.
- Butter the baking pan, add 1/4th of the fillo leaves one by one, basting each one generously with the melted butter. Add 1/3rd of the nut mixture on top of it.
- Continue making layers with another 1/4th of the fillo leaves, followed by 1/3rd of the nut mixture and so on. The top layer will thus be fillo leaves.
- Cut the finished "layer cake" into rhomboid shapes using a sharp knife.
- Bake at 200C for approximately 25 minutes or until gold brown.
- While the baklava is in the oven, gently heat the honey, the water and the remaining sugar until you obtain a thick syrup. Add a dash of lemon juice and some lemon zests.
- Let the syrup cool down a little. Take the baklava out of the oven and let it stand for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Slowly pour the syrup over the baklava. Decorate with the remaining pistachio nuts and let stand to cool down completely.
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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