Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Baklava is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Make ready 1 kg phyllo pastry, preferrably the finest you can get.
- Make ready 1/2 kg walnuts, coarsely chopped
- Prepare 1/2 kg raw almonds, coarsely chopped
- Take 3 tbsp finely ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1 tbsp finely ground cloves
- Make ready 600 g, approximately, fresh butter, melted
- Prepare For the syrup
- Get 6 cups sugar
- Prepare 500 ml glucose, or, 500 ml honey
- Prepare 1 l water
- Make ready the rind of two lemons, and two cinnamon sticks
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Instructions to make Baklava:
- In a bowl, combine the ingredients for the filling, that is, the nuts and the spices. Select an ovenproof dish according to the dimensions of your phyllo sheets, and grease bottom and sides well with melted butter. Layer the first 5 phyllo sheets to form the base. Each sheet must be brushed well, but lightly, with melted butter, before layering the next phyllo sheet on top of it. With a spoon, sprinkle over the whole surface of the phyllo some of the filling mixture. Continue layering each sheet of phyllo, brushing it with butter and sprinkling with nuts, until you have 4-5 sheets left.
- Finish off the baklava by layering the last 4-5 sheets. With a sharp knife, score through the top layers of the baklava, either in a diamond grid, or square portions.
- Pour more melted butter over the surface of the baklava, and sprinkle it well with cold water. Bake in a preheated oven, at 180 degrees, for approximately 50 minutes, until golden.
- Let the ingredients for the syrup come to boil, and cook for 5 minutes. As soon as the baklava is done and taken out of the oven, pour the hot syrup over, spoon by spoon, making sure the whole baklava is well saturated. Let stand to allow the syrup to be absorbed, but do not cover, to ensure the baklava remains crispy.
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