Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, baklava. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baklava is a sweet dessert made of layers of phyllo filled with chopped walnuts and pistachios, soaked with honey syrup. This heavenly Baklava combines honey-soaked layers of flaky phyllo pastry with spiced walnuts. It's a great make-ahead dessert perfect for the holidays or special occasions.
Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Baklava is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baklava using 20 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Get For dough
- Take 1 Egg
- Get 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 cup milk- water mixture
- Make ready 4 cup All-purpose flour(maida)
- Take 2 +1/2 Tsp Baking powder
- Get 1 pinch Salt
- Make ready 2 cup Butter
- Take 2 Tbsp Corn starch
- Get For Honey Syrup
- Prepare 1 Cup sugar
- Get 3/4 cup water
- Prepare 1/2 cup honey
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Prepare 1/4 Tsp Vanilla essence
- Get 2 Tbsp lemon juice
- Get For filling
- Make ready 1 cups Walnuts (crushed)
- Get 1 cup Pistachio (crushed)
- Get 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
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. Baklava uses phyllo dough stacked with honey and nuts to make a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone will love. Not to be confused with balaclava or Balaklava.
Steps 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.
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