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Easiest Way to Prepare Award-winning Maria's Not so Sweet Baklava

 ·  ☕ 5 min read  ·  ✍️ Susan Hughes

Maria's Not so Sweet Baklava
Maria's Not so Sweet Baklava

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, maria's not so sweet baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really 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 well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Maria's Not so Sweet Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Make ready Dough
  2. Take 2 box Phyllo Dough
  3. Get 1 Very Sharp Knife without serrated edges
  4. Take Filling
  5. Make ready 2 lb Walnuts
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp Sugar
  7. Prepare 2 tbsp Cinnamon
  8. Make ready Spreading between layers
  9. Make ready 3 stick Unsalted Sweet Melted Butter
  10. Make ready 1 Cooking Brush
  11. Get Sugar Water Topping
  12. Get 2 1/2 cup Water
  13. Prepare 1 1/2 cup Sugar
  14. Take 5 Whole Cloves
  15. Make ready 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.

Steps 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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