Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. 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 popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 20 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Make ready For dough
2. Get 1 Egg
3. Make ready 1/2 cup vegetable oil
4. Get 1 cup milk- water mixture
5. Take 4 cup All-purpose flour(maida)
6. Take 2 +1/2 Tsp Baking powder
7. Get 1 pinch Salt
8. Prepare 2 cup Butter
9. Get 2 Tbsp Corn starch
10. Take For Honey Syrup
11. Take 1 Cup sugar
12. Take 3/4 cup water
13. Take 1/2 cup honey
14. Prepare 4 cloves
15. Take 1/4 Tsp Vanilla essence
16. Get 2 Tbsp lemon juice
17. Take For filling
18. Make ready 1 cups Walnuts (crushed)
19. Get 1 cup Pistachio (crushed)
20. Make ready 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder

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. 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.
2. Divide dough in 4 portions and make balls of each portion and further divide it into 5 balls.
3. Cover with plastic wrap or damp cloth preventing it from drying out.
4. Mix cornstarch and flour together in a bowl. - Dust the workplace with cornstarch mix and the roll the ball into circle. And set aside.
5. Stack them on each other and dust each layer with cornstarch mix so they don’t stick together.
6. Now gently roll all five layers together until they’re paper thin for about 10-12 inches in diameter.
7. Directions For Honey Syrup
8. In a pan heat water, add sugar, honey, cloves, lemon and mix well.
9. Boil on medium heat until sugar is dissolved and stir continuously.
10. Remove from heat and let it cool.
11. Directions for Baklava
12. In a bowl mix walnut, pistachio and cinnamon powder well.
13. In a baking pan place 10 dough sheets on one another and butter each sheet well.
14. Add a layer of crushed nuts, cover it with five more dough sheet and sprinkle crushed nuts on each sheet.
15. Now cut it into diagonal shape before baking. - Bake at 160 degree for 1 hour or until the top gets golden.
16. Remove from oven and immediately pour cooled honey syrup evenly over the hot baklava.
17. Let it settle for 4 to 6 hours and serve.

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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