Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life.

Baklava is a sweet dessert made of layers of phyllo filled with chopped walnuts and pistachios, soaked with honey syrup. Baklava or baklawa is a rich, sweet pastry featured in many cuisines of the former Ottoman countries. It is made of layers of phyllo dough filled with chopped nuts, such as walnuts, almonds, or pistachios, and sweetened with syrup or honey.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have baklava using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Prepare 1 packet Phyllo Filo dough / -
2. Make ready Nuts (Almonds or Walnuts or both) - Blanched and chopped
3. Prepare 1 cup Butter melted
4. Take 1 tsp Cinnamon Powder -
5. Make ready 1 cup Water
6. Take 2 cups Sugar nuts boiling , (go with white)  (1 for 1)
7. Make ready 1/2 cup Honey
8. Get 1 tbsp Lemon Juice

Baklava is a Mediterranean dessert with layers of phyllo dough, nuts and honey. I've also included two authentic baklava recipes for you to try: a fancy and more involved recipe as well as a simple. Not to be confused with balaclava or Balaklava. Baklava uses phyllo dough stacked with honey and nuts to make a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone will love.

Steps to make Baklava:

1. I began by getting the syrup ready because it takes 20-30mins and it needs to be ready by the time the baking is done. Boil sugar, honey, lemon juice and water. Bring this to a boil and leave it to simmer for about 20mins
2. Blanch and chop your nuts. I tried going manual with a knife - but I dumped all of the nuts and give it a blitz and it was ready in 30 seconds. In a bowl mix the nuts with some sugar and cinnamon. Set aside
3. Get your greased baking pan and unroll the phyllo/filo dough. If its frozen, defrost it well because you don't want it to break on you since its delicate. If you tear, don't shed a tear though because with all the layering, no one will notice the tear :) Alright time to start layering - so begin by placing 2 sheets and butter well. Repeat this until you have 8 sheets layered. Sprinkle the nut mixture, top with 2 sheets of dough, butter again, and add the nuts. Continue to do this: Nuts, 2 dou…
4. Bake in a preheated oven at 350F (175C) until golden brown. Once done, immediately pour the sauce over it and slice the baklava into squares or diamonds. You can also choose to cut this before you stick it in the oven
5. Let this cool and serve with some strong coffee or tea :)

The remarkable baklava is a luscious dessert created with layers of thin phyllo dough intertwined with chopped nuts The popularity of baklava has long surpassed borders, regions, and ethnic groups to. Baklava is a delicious phyllo pastry popular in Middle Eastern countries. In baklava, layers of crisp phyllo dough alternate with a sugary spiced nut mixture, and the whole thing is then soaked in fragrant. Baklava is a layered pastry with nuts and honey syrup popular in Greece, Turkey and Baklava is a dessert as old as time, to use the phrase loosely. Baklava is a rich, sweet Middle Eastern pastry made from layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup.

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