Baklava
Baklava

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a Good dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. For mine, 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 well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Baklava is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
  1. Make ready 1 kg phyllo pastry, preferrably the finest you can get.
  2. Prepare 1/2 kg walnuts, coarsely chopped
  3. Make ready 1/2 kg raw almonds, coarsely chopped
  4. Take 3 tbsp finely ground cinnamon
  5. Take 1 tbsp finely ground cloves
  6. Prepare 600 g, approximately, fresh butter, melted
  7. Make ready For the syrup
  8. Take 6 cups sugar
  9. Get 500 ml glucose, or, 500 ml honey
  10. Take 1 l water
  11. Prepare the rind of two lemons, and two cinnamon sticks

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:
  1. In a bowl, combine the ingredients for the filling, that is, the nuts and the spices.  Select an ovenproof dish according to the dimensions of your phyllo sheets, and grease bottom and sides well with melted butter.  Layer the first 5 phyllo sheets to form the base.  Each sheet must be brushed well, but lightly, with melted butter, before layering the next phyllo sheet on top of it.  With a spoon, sprinkle over the whole surface of the phyllo some of the filling mixture.  Continue layering each sheet of phyllo, brushing it with butter and sprinkling with nuts, until you have 4-5 sheets left.
  2. Finish off the baklava by layering the last 4-5 sheets. With a sharp knife, score through the top layers of the baklava, either in a diamond grid, or square portions.
  3. Pour more melted butter over the surface of the baklava, and sprinkle it well with cold water.  Bake in a preheated oven, at 180 degrees, for approximately 50 minutes, until golden.
  4. Let the ingredients for the syrup come to boil, and cook for 5 minutes.  As soon as the baklava is done and taken out of the oven, pour the hot syrup over, spoon by spoon, making sure the whole baklava is well saturated.  Let stand to allow the syrup to be absorbed, but do not cover, to ensure the baklava remains crispy.

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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