Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a 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. 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 is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Baklava is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have baklava using 6 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Prepare walnuts
2. Make ready sheetable dough
3. Get sugar sirup
4. Prepare grated lemon peel
5. Make ready fresh lime juice
6. Prepare butter

It's a great make-ahead dessert perfect for the holidays or special occasions. Not to be confused with balaclava or Balaklava. The iconic Baklava is astonishingly straight forward to make! The iconic Baklava is my all time favourite pastry that I can't get enough of.

Instructions to make Baklava:

1. Preparing the sugar sirup: mix 800 grams of sugar with 800 ml or water in the cooking potand heat them until the sugar is melted. After boiling take off the cooking pot from the hob and mix it with the fresh lemon juice. This will preserve the liquid from cristalizing.
2. Preheat the oven to 200C
3. Put walnuts into a grinder an crush them to a small peaces.
4. Mix grinded walnuts with the grated lemon peel
5. Take 30 cm cooking plate/pan and start building your baklava.
6. Build it on layers. 5-6-7 layers of dough, 1 layer of walnuts. make not more than 3 layers of walnuts and finish building with dough.
7. Cut the baklava on any forms you would like.
8. Melt the butter and pour it all over the already built baklava.
9. Put the baklava in the oven and bake it until its well baked.
10. Most of the time bake from the bottom.
11. After the baklava is well baked take it out of the oven and leave it aside to get cool.
12. After the baklava is well cool pour and "drawn" the baklava in sugar sirup.
13. Leave it to soak the sirup for at least 10-12 hours.
14. Enjoy your delicius Baklava!
15. Cinsume responsibly - it is a bomb with calories! :)

You'll love how homemade Baklava is not overly sweet and. Baklava is a rich, sweet Middle Eastern pastry made from layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup. It is surprisingly easy to make (thanks. 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.

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