Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, maria's not so sweet baklava. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Get In Touch With Our Professional Team To Find Out More About Our Range. While the Baklava is baking, you can make your Sugar water on the stove top. And it can leave brown specks from the milk solids on the baklava. Sweetener: Here I am using sugar with some honey to make the syrup.

Maria's Not so Sweet Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Maria's Not so Sweet Baklava is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook maria's not so sweet baklava using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Maria's Not so Sweet Baklava:

1. Get Dough
2. Get 2 box Phyllo Dough
3. Get 1 Very Sharp Knife without serrated edges
4. Take Filling
5. Take 2 lb Walnuts
6. Get 2 tbsp Sugar
7. Take 2 tbsp Cinnamon
8. Get Spreading between layers
9. Make ready 3 stick Unsalted Sweet Melted Butter
10. Take 1 Cooking Brush
11. Prepare Sugar Water Topping
12. Make ready 2 1/2 cup Water
13. Take 1 1/2 cup Sugar
14. Get 5 Whole Cloves
15. Prepare 1/4 tsp Pure Vanilla

Let baklava cool completely, uncovered and at room temp. Garnish baklava with finely chopped nuts or drizzle with melted chocolate. But let's have a closer look at what makes baklava such a sweet delight. Baklava is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry (yufka), filled with chopped nuts, drowned with syrup or honey and served with kaymak or ice cream.

Instructions to make Maria's Not so Sweet Baklava:

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Chop up walnuts really fine add the sugar and cinnamon in a bowl and mix together well and set aside.
3. Use a 1 inch to 1.5 inch thick, flat wide baking pan at least 18"x14" if you don't have one that size you can cut sheets to fit your pan. cutting the sheets all together helps cut down prep time.
4. Grease the bottom of the pan with cooking brush a light thin coating of melted butter.
5. For a thin crust use four sheets on bottom of pan. For a thick crust on bottom use 8 sheets. after placing the sheets on the bottom of the pan with a cooking brush, coat the last sheet on top with the melted butter
6. Sprinkle a thin layer of the walnut mix to the buttered sheets.
7. Add 4 sheets again and butter the last top sheet again and add again a thin layer of walnut mix. do these steps with both boxes until all sheets are used. but do not butter the very last sheet on top.
8. Cutting the Baklava is easier when top is not greased.
9. After cutting the Baklava use the brush to gently grease the top with the melted butter.
10. Bake Baklava in middle of oven for 20 to 30 min depending on your oven. or until golden brown on top.
11. While the Baklava is baking, you can make your Sugar water on the stove top.
12. Add the water, sugar, cloves, and vanilla and let it boil until slightly thick. for about 20 min on medium heat stirring occasionally if not slightly thick add 5 more min to heating. if needed a larger amount of Sugar water just use double the ingredients.
13. When Baklava is done pour sugar water with spoon into cracks of the cut lines to evenly coat baklava while its still hot. both baklava and sugar water need to be hot for this process. but not boiling hot, 1.5 cups worth of cooked sugar water should be good for a whole pan. but if you like it slightly moist use 2 cups of cooked sugar water.
14. Enjoy

But let's have a closer look at what makes baklava such a sweet delight. Baklava is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry (yufka), filled with chopped nuts, drowned with syrup or honey and served with kaymak or ice cream. Baklava is most often eaten as a snack with Turkish coffee during the day - but Turks do save a corner of their tummy for baklava after dinner. Layers upon layers of flaky pastry with a syrup soaked walnut or pistachio filling! Just like store bought - except it's not overly sweet, and you will love the hint of lemon.

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