Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, baklava. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Baklava is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Baklava is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Find Great Deals from the Top Retailers. Baklava is a rich, sweet Middle Eastern pastry made from layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup. It is surprisingly easy to make. Baklava (/ b ɑː k l ə ˈ v ɑː, ˈ b ɑː k l ə v ɑː /, or / b ə ˈ k l ɑː v ə /; Ottoman Turkish: باقلوا ) is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have baklava using 10 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Make ready 1 packages Phyllo dough (comes with 2 rolls)
- Make ready 4 cup Pecans or Walnuts (I use pecans)
- Take 1 tsp Cinnamon
- Make ready 1 1/2 stick Butter (melted)
- Get 2 cup Honey (16oz)
- Take 1/2 cup Water
- Get 1/2 cup Sugar
- Prepare 3 tsp Vanilla extract
- Take 1 tbsp American Honey whiskey (optional)
- Take 1 stick Butter (for sauce)
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Steps to make Baklava:
- Pre-heat oven to 350. Unroll the phyllo dough and place a moist kitchen towel over the sheets. Do NOT let the dough d
- Generously butter your choice of baking pan. If the phyllo dough is a lot larger trim the dough with kitchen scissors. You will always be using 2 phyllo sheets at a time.
- Melt butter (1 1/2 sticks)
- Mix nuts and cinnamon in a bowl. Set aside
- Pick up 2 phyllo sheets and place into the buttered baking dish
- Using a basting brush, brush melted butter onto the phyllo sheets you placed in the baking dish
- Repeat steps 5 & 6 three more times
- Sprinkle nuts on top of the buttered phyllo. (A single layer that covers the dough)
- Pick up 2 phyllo sheets and place on top the nuts, butter, add nuts
- Repeat until you run out of nuts (approx 4 more times)
- Now begin layering and buttering just the phyllo dough like in steps 5 & 6. Repeat 4-5x
- Using a sharp knife, cut into squares and then into a diamond pattern. Place in the oven for 30-40 min or when the baklava is a deep golden brown.
- In a saucepan melt 1 stick of butter, water, sugar, honey, vanilla, whiskey (optional). Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to low. Simmer for 15-20 minutes
- Remove baklava from the oven and slowly pour 1/2 the sauce over the golden baklava. Once absorbed, pour the remaining sauce.
- Allow the baklava to cool uncovered for serval hours. It tastes better with time. Note: It can get soggy if covered.
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