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How to Make Speedy Baklava with pistachios

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Shane Hopkins

Baklava with pistachios
Baklava with pistachios

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, baklava with pistachios. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Baklava with pistachios is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Baklava with pistachios is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Save Time and Do Groceries Online Now. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! Take eight sheets of phyllo dough and layer them in the greased pan, brushing each sheet with melted butter as you go. Spread about half of the nut mixture over phyllo dough.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have baklava with pistachios using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava with pistachios:
  1. Take 40 sheets filo pastry
  2. Make ready 500 g butter, I use the one in the glass jar
  3. Get 300 g pistachios (from Aegina)
  4. Prepare Ingredients for the syrup
  5. Make ready 650 g sugar
  6. Make ready 400 g water
  7. Make ready 80 g glucose syrup

What is a baklava Baklava is a syrupy dessert made of lots of sheets of phyllo pastry. The sheets were buttered and layered with honey, syrup, and nuts. One of the most coveted baklavas of them all is pistachio baklava made with bright green, raw pistachio nuts. If you wish, you can substitute the pistachios with ground walnuts or hazelnuts for a more economical version of this recipe.

Steps to make Baklava with pistachios:
  1. Melt the butter but don't let it brown.
  2. Blend the pistachios in the blender into powder (if they are coarsely blended the baklava filo sheets will not stick together).
  3. Line an oblog baking tray of 30x45 cm with butter (you can use a baking tray in the dimensions that you have just make sure that it is relatively large) and spread out half the filo sheets brushing each one with butter.
  4. Spread out the pistachios all over the baking tray and cover with the 20 remaining filo sheets brushing one by one with butter.
  5. Place the baking tray into the fridge to cool so you can cut the pieces.
  6. Cut into small square pieces, sprinkle with a little water so that they don't lift up while baking and bake in a very slow oven at 130-140οC for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
  7. Remove from the oven and pour the syrup over it, hot.
  8. To make the syrup, boil the sugar, water and glucose syrup for 3 minutes (count 3 minutes from the moment it starts to boil).

One of the most coveted baklavas of them all is pistachio baklava made with bright green, raw pistachio nuts. If you wish, you can substitute the pistachios with ground walnuts or hazelnuts for a more economical version of this recipe. Go ahead and experiment with different nuts to give you different flavors. Baklava is a very famous Middle Eastern dessert pastry, based on several layers of filo dough filled with nuts (pistachios, walnuts, pine seeds, etc.) and sweetened with sugar syrup. How to Make the Best Baklava (see video below): This is my easy and simple recipe to prepare Baklava with pistachios at home.

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