Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baklava. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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 current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Take Walnuts
2. Get Almonds , peeled
3. Make ready Pistachio
4. Get Sugar
5. Make ready Cinnamon Ground
6. Prepare Butter
7. Prepare Fillo Sheets
8. Make ready Honey
9. Take Water
10. Prepare Lemon

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.

Steps to make Baklava:

1. Coarsely grind or chop the walnuts, almonds and pistachio nuts.
2. Mix the walnuts, almonds, 50g of the pistachio nuts, the cinnamon and 4 tbsp. of sugar.
3. Melt the butter in a pan.
4. Cut the fillo leaves to the size of your baking pan by stacking them on top of each other, putting the pan on top of them and cutting around it with a sharp knife.
5. Butter the baking pan, add 1/4th of the fillo leaves one by one, basting each one generously with the melted butter. Add 1/3rd of the nut mixture on top of it.
6. Continue making layers with another 1/4th of the fillo leaves, followed by 1/3rd of the nut mixture and so on. The top layer will thus be fillo leaves.
7. Cut the finished "layer cake" into rhomboid shapes using a sharp knife.
8. Bake at 200C for approximately 25 minutes or until gold brown.
9. While the baklava is in the oven, gently heat the honey, the water and the remaining sugar until you obtain a thick syrup. Add a dash of lemon juice and some lemon zests.
10. Let the syrup cool down a little. Take the baklava out of the oven and let it stand for 5 to 10 minutes.
11. Slowly pour the syrup over the baklava. Decorate with the remaining pistachio nuts and let stand to cool down completely.

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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