Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baklava is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Baklava is a sweet dessert made of layers of phyllo filled with chopped walnuts and pistachios, soaked with honey syrup. Baklava or baklawa is a rich, sweet pastry featured in many cuisines of the former Ottoman countries. It is made of layers of phyllo dough filled with chopped nuts, such as walnuts, almonds, or pistachios, and sweetened with syrup or honey.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baklava using 6 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Make ready 800 grams walnuts
- Get 800 grams sheetable dough
- Get 1600 ml sugar sirup
- Make ready 2 tbsp grated lemon peel
- Get 30 ml fresh lime juice
- Make ready 750 grams butter
This heavenly Baklava combines honey-soaked layers of flaky phyllo pastry with spiced walnuts. It's a great make-ahead dessert perfect for the holidays or special occasions. Not to be confused with balaclava or Balaklava. The iconic Baklava is astonishingly straight forward to make!
Instructions to make Baklava:
- Preparing the sugar sirup: mix 800 grams of sugar with 800 ml or water in the cooking potand heat them until the sugar is melted. After boiling take off the cooking pot from the hob and mix it with the fresh lemon juice. This will preserve the liquid from cristalizing.
- Preheat the oven to 200C
- Put walnuts into a grinder an crush them to a small peaces.
- Mix grinded walnuts with the grated lemon peel
- Take 30 cm cooking plate/pan and start building your baklava.
- Build it on layers. 5-6-7 layers of dough, 1 layer of walnuts. make not more than 3 layers of walnuts and finish building with dough.
- Cut the baklava on any forms you would like.
- Melt the butter and pour it all over the already built baklava.
- Put the baklava in the oven and bake it until its well baked.
- Most of the time bake from the bottom.
- After the baklava is well baked take it out of the oven and leave it aside to get cool.
- After the baklava is well cool pour and "drawn" the baklava in sugar sirup.
- Leave it to soak the sirup for at least 10-12 hours.
- Enjoy your delicius Baklava!
- Cinsume responsibly - it is a bomb with calories! :)
The iconic Baklava is my all time favourite pastry that I can't get enough of. You'll love how homemade Baklava is not overly sweet and. Baklava is a delicious phyllo pastry popular in Middle Eastern countries. In baklava, layers of crisp phyllo dough alternate with a sugary spiced nut mixture, and the whole thing is then soaked in fragrant. Baklava is a layered pastry with nuts and honey syrup popular in Greece, Turkey and Baklava is a dessert as old as time, to use the phrase loosely.
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