Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Baklava is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Baklava is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have baklava using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Prepare 1/2 pack Filo pastry thawed. (I had a pack of 375g of filo pastry. I have cut them into the tin size and used)
2. Prepare 100 grams unsalted butter melted
3. Get 1/4 cup almonds chopped
4. Prepare 1/4 cup walnuts chopped
5. Prepare 1/4 cup pistachio chopped
6. Prepare 2 tsp cinnamon powder
7. Take 2 tbsp powdered sugar or as per the sweetness needed
8. Prepare 1 tbsp lemon juice
9. Get 1/4 cup honey
10. Prepare 3/4 cup water
11. Take 1/4 cup sugar or as per sweetness needed

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. First, make the syrup. In a pot, add sugar, water, and honey. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved, then reduce heat to low and boil an additional 5 mins. Add lemon juice. Mix well. Remove from heat and let syrup cool while preparing baklava.
2. In a plate add the chopped nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachio). Or add the nuts as per your choice. Grind the nuts coarse and remove in a bowl. Add cinnamon powder and powdered sugar. Mix well and keep aside.
3. Take the filo pastry sheets and trim it to the size of the pan to be used. I have used a rectangular 8"x6" pan. Cover the pastry sheets with a damp cloth to prevent from drying.
4. Grease the pan with the melted butter with the help of a brush. Place a filo pastry sheet in the greased tin. Brush it with melted butter. Place other filo pastry sheet over it and brush it with melted butter. Similarly, place other eight pastry sheets over it. Sprinkle the powdered nut mixture over the buttered sheets generously.
5. Place a filo pastry sheet over it and brush it with butter. Place again five more sheets of filo pastry applying butter on it. Again put the powdered nut mixture on the entire surface. Place five more sheet applying butter on them. Again sprinkle the powdered nut mixture on the buttered sheets. Place ten more sheets applying butter in between.
6. Cut the pastry into the diamond. Bake the pastry in a preheated oven at 180 C for 1 hour and 15 minutes or the top surface turns golden. Remove from oven and immediately pour cooled syrup evenly with the help of spoon over the hot baklava. This will ensure that it stays crisp rather than soggy. Let baklava cool completely, uncovered and at room temp.
7. Remove and serve.

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. Such a straightforward yet sophisticated dessert deserves further recognition, so here's the story behind the puff pastry treat. Baklava, a tangled history 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. A traditional Middle Eastern sweet pastry made up of layers of filo pastry brushed with melted butter and sweetened chopped nuts.

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