Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Baklava (/ bɑːkləˈvɑː, ˈbɑːkləvɑː /, or / bəˈklɑːvə /; Ottoman Turkish: باقلوا ‎) is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey. It was one of the most popular sweet pastries of Ottoman cuisine. Chop the nuts into small pieces using a food processor, taking care not to blitz them to a paste. Put them into a bowl, stir in the honey and a pinch of salt and set aside.

Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 11 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Make ready Baklavas:
2. Prepare phyllo pastry
3. Take pistachios
4. Get cinnamon
5. Get butter
6. Get Syrup:
7. Prepare sugar
8. Make ready water
9. Take honey
10. Prepare cinnamon
11. Take lemon juice

Using a sharp knife, cut into diamond or square shapes all the way to the bottom of the dish. Make sauce while baklava is baking: Boil sugar and water until sugar is dissolved. Although most sources agree that it's probably Turkish in origin, baklava spread throughout the Ottoman empire, and can be found as far afield as Albania and Azerbaijan - with a similar spread of. Such a straightforward yet sophisticated dessert deserves further recognition, so here's the story behind the puff pastry treat.

Steps to make Baklava:

1. Baklava rolls:
2. Unfreeze the phyllo pastry overnight in the fridge and take out of the fridge 30 minutes before making.
3. Preheat the oven to 180’C.
4. Powdered the pistachios and cinnamon, set aside.
5. Melt the butter over low heat on the stove in a small pot, set aside.
6. Carefully take out 6 sheets of phyllo pastry, pack the remaining sheets back in the box and freeze.
7. Carefully place 1 sheet on the work surface. Drizzle or brush with melted butter.
8. Add another sheet on top, brush with butter.
9. Sprinkle half of the nuts mixture all over.
10. Place another sheet on top, brush with butter, another sheet and brush with butter.
11. Sprinkle with nuts, sheet, butter, sheet and butter.
12. Roll tightly from on side to the other.
13. Cut into rolls with a sharp knife and place in a small oven dish close to each other so they will not unroll.
14. Drizzle with the remaining butter.
15. Bake for 30 minutes, take out, cover with foil and bake for another 30 minutes.
16. Syrup:
17. While the baklavas are in the oven, make the syrup.
18. Add all the ingredients in a small pot, bring to boil.
19. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
20. Take the syrup off the heat to cool down.
21. Drizzle the syrup over baklavas once they come out of the oven.
22. For best results, make a day ahead, cover with glad wrap and place in the fridge once cooled.
23. Opa!

Although most sources agree that it's probably Turkish in origin, baklava spread throughout the Ottoman empire, and can be found as far afield as Albania and Azerbaijan - with a similar spread of. Such a straightforward yet sophisticated dessert deserves further recognition, so here's the story behind the puff pastry treat. A traditional Middle Eastern sweet pastry made up of layers of filo pastry brushed with melted butter and sweetened chopped nuts. The layers are soaked in a syrup made with honey or sugar and may be sprinkled with lemon juice. The pastry layers are baked and then cut into individual pieces before serving.

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