How to Prepare Quick Baklava

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Baklava is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Take 1 kg phyllo pastry, preferrably the finest you can get.
2. Get 1/2 kg walnuts, coarsely chopped
3. Take 1/2 kg raw almonds, coarsely chopped
4. Make ready 3 tbsp finely ground cinnamon
5. Prepare 1 tbsp finely ground cloves
6. Get 600 g, approximately, fresh butter, melted
7. Get For the syrup
8. Prepare 6 cups sugar
9. Take 500 ml glucose, or, 500 ml honey
10. Take 1 l water
11. Take the rind of two lemons, and two cinnamon sticks

The pre-Ottoman origin of the dish is unknown, but, in modern times, it is a common dessert. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. When you remove the baklava from the oven, drizzle half the saucepan evenly all over the top. USE PISTACHIOs is the key to a more original baklava (according to my Turkish hubby).

Instructions to make Baklava:

1. In a bowl, combine the ingredients for the filling, that is, the nuts and the spices.  Select an ovenproof dish according to the dimensions of your phyllo sheets, and grease bottom and sides well with melted butter.  Layer the first 5 phyllo sheets to form the base.  Each sheet must be brushed well, but lightly, with melted butter, before layering the next phyllo sheet on top of it.  With a spoon, sprinkle over the whole surface of the phyllo some of the filling mixture.  Continue layering each sheet of phyllo, brushing it with butter and sprinkling with nuts, until you have 4-5 sheets left.
2. Finish off the baklava by layering the last 4-5 sheets. With a sharp knife, score through the top layers of the baklava, either in a diamond grid, or square portions.
3. Pour more melted butter over the surface of the baklava, and sprinkle it well with cold water.  Bake in a preheated oven, at 180 degrees, for approximately 50 minutes, until golden.
4. Let the ingredients for the syrup come to boil, and cook for 5 minutes.  As soon as the baklava is done and taken out of the oven, pour the hot syrup over, spoon by spoon, making sure the whole baklava is well saturated.  Let stand to allow the syrup to be absorbed, but do not cover, to ensure the baklava remains crispy.

When you remove the baklava from the oven, drizzle half the saucepan evenly all over the top. USE PISTACHIOs is the key to a more original baklava (according to my Turkish hubby). Walnuts are cheaper but pistachios definately make the baklava tastes better. Skip all those cloves and cinnamon, that stuff is for the Americanized taste. Taste the nut, butter and the good syrup.

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