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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 (/ bɑːkləˈvɑː, ˈbɑːkləvɑː /, or / bəˈklɑːvə /; 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 well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Baklava is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baklava using 11 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Take Baklavas:
- Make ready phyllo pastry
- Get pistachios
- Prepare cinnamon
- Make ready butter
- Take Syrup:
- Get sugar
- Take water
- Take honey
- Take cinnamon
- Prepare lemon juice
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Steps to make Baklava:
- Baklava rolls:
- Unfreeze the phyllo pastry overnight in the fridge and take out of the fridge 30 minutes before making.
- Preheat the oven to 180’C.
- Powdered the pistachios and cinnamon, set aside.
- Melt the butter over low heat on the stove in a small pot, set aside.
- Carefully take out 6 sheets of phyllo pastry, pack the remaining sheets back in the box and freeze.
- Carefully place 1 sheet on the work surface. Drizzle or brush with melted butter.
- Add another sheet on top, brush with butter.
- Sprinkle half of the nuts mixture all over.
- Place another sheet on top, brush with butter, another sheet and brush with butter.
- Sprinkle with nuts, sheet, butter, sheet and butter.
- Roll tightly from on side to the other.
- Cut into rolls with a sharp knife and place in a small oven dish close to each other so they will not unroll.
- Drizzle with the remaining butter.
- Bake for 30 minutes, take out, cover with foil and bake for another 30 minutes.
- Syrup:
- While the baklavas are in the oven, make the syrup.
- Add all the ingredients in a small pot, bring to boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Take the syrup off the heat to cool down.
- Drizzle the syrup over baklavas once they come out of the oven.
- For best results, make a day ahead, cover with glad wrap and place in the fridge once cooled.
- Opa!
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