Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. It was one of the most popular sweet pastries of Ottoman cuisine.
Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have baklava using 20 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Get For dough
- Get 1 Egg
- Take 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Get 1 cup milk- water mixture
- Get 4 cup All-purpose flour(maida)
- Make ready 2 +1/2 Tsp Baking powder
- Make ready 1 pinch Salt
- Take 2 cup Butter
- Take 2 Tbsp Corn starch
- Take For Honey Syrup
- Make ready 1 Cup sugar
- Get 3/4 cup water
- Take 1/2 cup honey
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Take 1/4 Tsp Vanilla essence
- Take 2 Tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready For filling
- Get 1 cups Walnuts (crushed)
- Prepare 1 cup Pistachio (crushed)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
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Instructions to make Baklava:
- In a large bowl add flour, vegetable oil, egg, salt, baking powder and knead a smooth dough with water and milk mixture. And rest it for 15 minutes.
- Divide dough in 4 portions and make balls of each portion and further divide it into 5 balls.
- Cover with plastic wrap or damp cloth preventing it from drying out.
- Mix cornstarch and flour together in a bowl. - Dust the workplace with cornstarch mix and the roll the ball into circle. And set aside.
- Stack them on each other and dust each layer with cornstarch mix so they don’t stick together.
- Now gently roll all five layers together until they’re paper thin for about 10-12 inches in diameter.
- Directions For Honey Syrup
- In a pan heat water, add sugar, honey, cloves, lemon and mix well.
- Boil on medium heat until sugar is dissolved and stir continuously.
- Remove from heat and let it cool.
- Directions for Baklava
- In a bowl mix walnut, pistachio and cinnamon powder well.
- In a baking pan place 10 dough sheets on one another and butter each sheet well.
- Add a layer of crushed nuts, cover it with five more dough sheet and sprinkle crushed nuts on each sheet.
- Now cut it into diagonal shape before baking. - Bake at 160 degree for 1 hour or until the top gets golden.
- Remove from oven and immediately pour cooled honey syrup evenly over the hot baklava.
- Let it settle for 4 to 6 hours and serve.
So many juicy layers of flavor! This is hands down, our favorite baklava. Check out the glowing reviews below and add the ingredients to your grocery list. 🙂. Watch Baklava Video Tutorial: Any baklava is a little tedious to make, but I've shared all of. Lay the filo out on a clear work surface near the tin, with the melted butter-and-nut.
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