Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Baklava is a rich, sweet Middle Eastern pastry made from layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup. It is surprisingly easy to make. Baklava (/ b ɑː k l ə ˈ v ɑː, ˈ b ɑː k l ə v ɑː /, or / b ə ˈ k l ɑː v ə /; 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.

Baklava is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Baklava is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have baklava using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Prepare 400 gms chopped nuts
2. Get 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3. Prepare 16 ounce package phyllo dough
4. Prepare 1 cup melted butter
5. Take 1 cup white sugar
6. Make ready 1 cup water
7. Take 1/2 cup honey
8. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
9. Take 1 tsp grated lemon zest

With a sharp knife, score filo to form diamonds. Press a clove into the centre of each diamond. Pour remaining butter over the whole lot. Meanwhile, combine the sugar, water and cinnamon stick in a medium saucepan, and bring to the boil, stirring constantly.

Steps to make Baklava:

1. Pre heat the oven at 108˚C.
2. Trim filo pastry sheets according to the tray.
3. Grease an aluminum tray with butter and place 2-3 pastry sheets on it.
4. Apply butter over the filo pastry and repeat the process till you complete layering 10 sheets.
5. Sprinkle the walnuts over it and drizzle butter. Place 2-3 more filo pastry sheets over it and brush butter on top and repeat till process till you complete layering another 10 sheet.
6. Sprinkle almonds and repeat the same process with pistachios till all the sheets are used up and the tray is full.
7. Cut into diamonds and bake in a preheated oven at 180 for 25 – 30 minutes.
8. Heat a deep nonstick pan. Add sugar and 1 cup water and the juice of half a lemon.
9. Stir till sugar dissolves and cook till it thickens.
10. Pour the sugar syrup over the baked filo sheet and let it rest for 5 -7 minutes.
11. Serve.

Pour remaining butter over the whole lot. Meanwhile, combine the sugar, water and cinnamon stick in a medium saucepan, and bring to the boil, stirring constantly. 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. Allow the baklava to cool before removing the individual pieces from the dish with a palette knife.

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