Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baklava with date filling. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baklava with date filling is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Baklava with date filling is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have baklava with date filling using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava with date filling:
- Prepare 16 phylo pastry sheets
- Prepare 100 gm melted butter
- Get for the filling:
- Prepare 1/2 kg ripe black dated deseeded and peeled
- Make ready 2 tbsp butter
- Take for the syrup:
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Get 1 cup water
- Make ready 1 tsp lemon juice
- Prepare 1 tbsp rose water
- Get 1 tbsp orange flower water
Place lengthwise in pan, tucking in sides and ends of top and bottom sheets to enclose filling completely. Carefully cut through top layers of phyllo (do not cut through to filling) to form. In a small saucepan, combine the water, sugar and orange flower water. Place the pan over medium-low heat, constantly stir to dissolve the sugar, and bring to a boil.
Instructions to make Baklava with date filling:
- FOR THE SYRUP: Prepare it one day ahead. Put Water and Sugar on HIGH heat stir well till Sugar dissolves. boil uncovered for 5 minutes. Add lemon juice, rose water and orange flower water and boil for 2 more minutes. Cool and refrigerate.
- FOR THE FILLING: In a heavy base pan on very low heat mix prepared dates and Butter. Simmer for about 30 - 40 minutes stiring on and off until dates turn to a dark red colour and all Water evaporates. Set aside. Keep warm.
- ASSEMBLING YOUR DESSERT: Spread one phylo pastry sheet in a buttered baking dish and brush pastry sheet with melted butter. Repeat this process with 8 sheets brushing each sheet with Butter. Spread your warm date filling evenly over the phylo pastry. Spread one phylo pastry sheet over the dates, brush with melted butter. Continue till you finish all the phylo pastry sheets.
- Cut the phylo pastry into squares with a sharp knife. The size of each square is up to you.
- Preheat oven to 180C. Bake your baklava for 30 minutes. Raise temp to 200C and bake for 10 more minutes till golden brown.
- Remove HOT baklava from oven and immediately pour COLD refrigerated syrup over baklava. (This is the secret of a crispy baklava.)
- Best eaten same day.
- Enjoy
In a small saucepan, combine the water, sugar and orange flower water. Place the pan over medium-low heat, constantly stir to dissolve the sugar, and bring to a boil. Once it has come to temperature, pour the syrup over the top, especially along the lines, and put. What to use for baklava filling is completely up to your taste. You can even use a mixture of all nuts together.
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