Baklava

Steps Making Recipes Baklava using 10 ingredients and 11 steps

Baklava - Put the cooled sauce on as soon as you pull the baklava out of the oven. It tastes like the baklava I buy in the Greek stores downtown and a LOT cheaper per piece. Cut a diagonal diamond pattern in the baklava using a very sharp knife. It is characteristic of the cuisines of the Egypt, Levant and the broader Middle East, along with. Melt the butter over low heat.

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.

You can cook Baklava using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients cook Baklava

1. It's Walnuts.
2. It's Almonds , peeled.
3. You need Pistachio.
4. It's Sugar.
5. Prepare Cinnamon Ground.
6. It's Butter.
7. Prepare Fillo Sheets.
8. You need Honey.
9. You need Water.
10. Prepare Lemon.

Baklava instructions

1. Coarsely grind or chop the walnuts, almonds and pistachio nuts..
2. Mix the walnuts, almonds, 50g of the pistachio nuts, the cinnamon and 4 tbsp. of sugar..
3. Melt the butter in a pan..
4. Cut the fillo leaves to the size of your baking pan by stacking them on top of each other, putting the pan on top of them and cutting around it with a sharp knife..
5. Butter the baking pan, add 1/4th of the fillo leaves one by one, basting each one generously with the melted butter. Add 1/3rd of the nut mixture on top of it..
6. Continue making layers with another 1/4th of the fillo leaves, followed by 1/3rd of the nut mixture and so on. The top layer will thus be fillo leaves..
7. Cut the finished "layer cake" into rhomboid shapes using a sharp knife..
8. Bake at 200C for approximately 25 minutes or until gold brown..
9. While the baklava is in the oven, gently heat the honey, the water and the remaining sugar until you obtain a thick syrup. Add a dash of lemon juice and some lemon zests..
10. Let the syrup cool down a little. Take the baklava out of the oven and let it stand for 5 to 10 minutes..
11. Slowly pour the syrup over the baklava. Decorate with the remaining pistachio nuts and let stand to cool down completely..

Baklava - 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. The results are scrumptious and well worth the effort. Garnish baklava with finely chopped nuts or drizzle with melted chocolate. Whereas it is most common to find baklava made entirely with walnuts here in Greece, I prefer a combination with almonds. Place the cinnamon stick and whole allspice into a spice grinder and grind. Thank you and good luck