Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, baklava. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Baklava is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Baklava is something that I have loved my entire 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 particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have baklava using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Get 1/2 pack Filo pastry thawed. (I had a pack of 375g of filo pastry. I have cut them into the tin size and used)
- Make ready 100 grams unsalted butter melted
- Make ready 1/4 cup almonds chopped
- Take 1/4 cup walnuts chopped
- Take 1/4 cup pistachio chopped
- Make ready 2 tsp cinnamon powder
- Take 2 tbsp powdered sugar or as per the sweetness needed
- Get 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Prepare 1/4 cup honey
- Make ready 3/4 cup water
- Get 1/4 cup sugar or as per sweetness needed
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!
Steps to make Baklava:
- First, make the syrup. In a pot, add sugar, water, and honey. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved, then reduce heat to low and boil an additional 5 mins. Add lemon juice. Mix well. Remove from heat and let syrup cool while preparing baklava.
- In a plate add the chopped nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachio). Or add the nuts as per your choice. Grind the nuts coarse and remove in a bowl. Add cinnamon powder and powdered sugar. Mix well and keep aside.
- Take the filo pastry sheets and trim it to the size of the pan to be used. I have used a rectangular 8"x6" pan. Cover the pastry sheets with a damp cloth to prevent from drying.
- Grease the pan with the melted butter with the help of a brush. Place a filo pastry sheet in the greased tin. Brush it with melted butter. Place other filo pastry sheet over it and brush it with melted butter. Similarly, place other eight pastry sheets over it. Sprinkle the powdered nut mixture over the buttered sheets generously.
- Place a filo pastry sheet over it and brush it with butter. Place again five more sheets of filo pastry applying butter on it. Again put the powdered nut mixture on the entire surface. Place five more sheet applying butter on them. Again sprinkle the powdered nut mixture on the buttered sheets. Place ten more sheets applying butter in between.
- Cut the pastry into the diamond. Bake the pastry in a preheated oven at 180 C for 1 hour and 15 minutes or the top surface turns golden. Remove from oven and immediately pour cooled syrup evenly with the help of spoon over the hot baklava. This will ensure that it stays crisp rather than soggy. Let baklava cool completely, uncovered and at room temp.
- Remove 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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