Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, baklava with pistachios. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Baklava with pistachios is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Baklava with pistachios is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook baklava with pistachios using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava with pistachios:

1. Get 40 sheets filo pastry
2. Get 500 g butter, I use the one in the glass jar
3. Take 300 g pistachios (from Aegina)
4. Take Ingredients for the syrup
5. Prepare 650 g sugar
6. Take 400 g water
7. Prepare 80 g glucose syrup

The sweet treats come in all shapes and sizes like squares, diamonds, rolls, and spirals. This pistachio baklava is the Constantinople (or Istanbul) version. I wanted to honor my paternal grandma Evgenia, an amazing woman from Poli, as Greeks still call the famous city. She was one of the best cooks I have ever met.

Steps to make Baklava with pistachios:

1. Melt the butter but don't let it brown.
2. Blend the pistachios in the blender into powder (if they are coarsely blended the baklava filo sheets will not stick together).
3. Line an oblog baking tray of 30x45 cm with butter (you can use a baking tray in the dimensions that you have just make sure that it is relatively large) and spread out half the filo sheets brushing each one with butter.
4. Spread out the pistachios all over the baking tray and cover with the 20 remaining filo sheets brushing one by one with butter.
5. Place the baking tray into the fridge to cool so you can cut the pieces.
6. Cut into small square pieces, sprinkle with a little water so that they don't lift up while baking and bake in a very slow oven at 130-140οC for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
7. Remove from the oven and pour the syrup over it, hot.
8. To make the syrup, boil the sugar, water and glucose syrup for 3 minutes (count 3 minutes from the moment it starts to boil).

I wanted to honor my paternal grandma Evgenia, an amazing woman from Poli, as Greeks still call the famous city. She was one of the best cooks I have ever met. Her family gatherings are legendary for her culinary creations. Made with multiple layers of delicately crispy and flaky phyllo sheets, this Pistachio Baklava Recipe is SO delicious. Finished with my aromatic Lebanese Simple Syrup, you will be tempted to eat this entire homemade baklava in one sitting.

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