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Simple Way to Make Award-winning Baklava

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Clyde Gilbert

Baklava
Baklava

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Save Time and Do Groceries Online Now. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! Check Out Great Products On eBay. Baklava is a rich, sweet Middle Eastern pastry made from layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup.

Baklava is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Baklava is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
  1. Get 150 Grams Walnuts
  2. Take 100 Grams Almonds , peeled
  3. Make ready 75 Grams Pistachio
  4. Take 200 Grams Sugar
  5. Take 0.5 Teaspoon Cinnamon Ground
  6. Take 250 Grams Butter
  7. Take 500 Grams Fillo Sheets
  8. Make ready 125 Millilitres Honey
  9. Take 150 Millilitres Water
  10. Take 1 Lemon

Put them into a bowl, stir in the honey and a pinch of salt and set aside. Baked and Packed to Order only Guarantee 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.

Steps to make Baklava:
  1. Coarsely grind or chop the walnuts, almonds and pistachio nuts.
  2. Mix the walnuts, almonds, 50g of the pistachio nuts, the cinnamon and 4 tbsp. of sugar.
  3. Melt the butter in a pan.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Cut the finished "layer cake" into rhomboid shapes using a sharp knife.
  8. Bake at 200C for approximately 25 minutes or until gold brown.
  9. 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.
  10. Let the syrup cool down a little. Take the baklava out of the oven and let it stand for 5 to 10 minutes.
  11. Slowly pour the syrup over the baklava. Decorate with the remaining pistachio nuts and let stand to cool down completely.

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. Chateaudemed Mediterranean delicacies, freshly baked baklava sweets, authentic Turkish delight, Medjool dates, roasted nuts, organic olive oil soap from Nablus. Free UK Delivery on some products. Such a straightforward yet sophisticated dessert deserves further recognition, so here's the story behind the puff pastry treat.

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