Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, baklava with pistachios. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Baklava with pistachios is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Baklava with pistachios is something that I have loved my whole life.

Take eight sheets of phyllo dough and layer them in the greased pan, brushing each sheet with melted butter as you go. Spread about half of the nut mixture over phyllo dough. Cover with six sheets of dough, brushing each with ghee as you layer. This Turkish-style baklava tastes deeply and richly of pistachio nuts and butter, without the spices, honey or aromatics found in other versions.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baklava with pistachios using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava with pistachios:

1. Take filo pastry
2. Get butter, I use the one in the glass jar
3. Make ready pistachios (from Aegina)
4. Take Ingredients for the syrup
5. Prepare sugar
6. Prepare water
7. Get glucose syrup

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Steps to make Baklava with pistachios:

1. Melt the butter but don't let it brown.
2. Blend the pistachios in the blender into powder (if they are coarsely blended the baklava filo sheets will not stick together).
3. Line an oblog baking tray of 30x45 cm with butter (you can use a baking tray in the dimensions that you have just make sure that it is relatively large) and spread out half the filo sheets brushing each one with butter.
4. Spread out the pistachios all over the baking tray and cover with the 20 remaining filo sheets brushing one by one with butter.
5. Place the baking tray into the fridge to cool so you can cut the pieces.
6. Cut into small square pieces, sprinkle with a little water so that they don't lift up while baking and bake in a very slow oven at 130-140οC for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
7. Remove from the oven and pour the syrup over it, hot.
8. To make the syrup, boil the sugar, water and glucose syrup for 3 minutes (count 3 minutes from the moment it starts to boil).

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