Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Baklava is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baklava using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Prepare 1 kg phyllo pastry, preferrably the finest you can get.
- Get 1/2 kg walnuts, coarsely chopped
- Make ready 1/2 kg raw almonds, coarsely chopped
- Make ready 3 tbsp finely ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1 tbsp finely ground cloves
- Get 600 g, approximately, fresh butter, melted
- Prepare For the syrup
- Take 6 cups sugar
- Get 500 ml glucose, or, 500 ml honey
- Take 1 l water
- Make ready the rind of two lemons, and two cinnamon sticks
Melt the butter over low heat. Baklava is a delicious phyllo pastry popular in Middle Eastern countries. Its supposed origins are Turkish, dating to the Byzantine Empire (or even further), though many cultures claim it for their own. Many Greek and Lebanese restaurants serve it, and it is now a featured dessert of several former Ottoman countries.
Steps 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.
Many ethnic festivals are held in my city throughout the year. One in May is the Greek Hellenic Festival. My family enjoys baklava—a traditional walnut strudel. The recipe uses phyllo dough, which is not difficult to work with. Just have your ingredients ready to go and follow the directions on the package.
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