Baklava Recipe

Baklava Recipe with step-by-step pictures. This recipe combines layers of sugar-soaked crisp phyllo pastry and nut mixture with pistachios.

Baklava

Baklava could seem time consuming dessert to make. Nevertheless it is definitely very easy to make. This baklava is made with minimum ingredients like phyllo pastry, nuts, sugar.

About Baklava Recipe

Baklava is one among the addictive and wealthy sweet made with phyllo sheets, pistachios. The dish is baked till crispy and soaked in sugar syrup. This baklava is popular around lebanese, greek places.

Step one in baklava making is to get the phyllo pastry. Sadly that is just not available in my place. So i used to be in search of an ideal recipe to make that. Finally i got this recipe and it really works like a charm. The important thing for perfect phyllo pastry is to roll it as thin as possible. 

Making baklava using store bought filo pastry might be really easy, but making every little thing from scratch is what you call homemade. Baklava is buttery, flaky and nutty and sugary, every little thing you wish in a single bite. Since ramadan is across the corner, make this middle eastern dessert and wow your loved ones.

Baklava is just filo pastry brushed with butter throughout it and layered between numerous sugary nuts and the entire thing is baked to perfection and soaked in a sugar syrup.

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Ingredients for Baklava Recipe

Baklava is made with phyllo pastry which is layered with sugary nuts mixture and baked till crispy. The baklava is soaked with sugar syrup and allowed to set.

Phyllo Pastry

Phyllo pastry is made with flour, vinegar, olive oil and water. Sometimes eggs is utilized in the method. I used my homemade phyllo dough. The bottom line is to roll the dough as thin as possible.

Nuts

I wish to use pistachios. But any nuts might be utilized in the baklava recipe.

Sugar Syrup

Sugar syrup might be flavoured with any ingredients you want. Some ingredients are orange peel, lemon peel, cardamom, cinnamon. You need to use half sugar and half honey within the syrup.

How one can Make Baklava at Home

Pre-Preparation

Preheat oven to 190 degree C.Take a square baking pan and brush it generously with ghee and put aside.

Making Filling

Take pistachios, sugar in a blender or food processor. Crush them coarse and put aside. That is your filling. You need to use combination of any nuts on this.

Assembling Baklava

Spread phyllo sheets within the pan, it’s worthwhile to spread 10 layers of phyllo sheets. spread ghee between each layer. Now spread ½ of the pistachio mix over the phyllo pastry. Now spread one other 10 layers of phyllo pastry. Be sure that you grease each layer with ghee. Now spoon the remaining half of the pistachio mix and top with one other 10 layer of phyllo pastry. Be sure that you grease each layer with ghee.

Baking Baklava

Now use a pointy knife to chop it into small diagnols. Bake this in preheated oven for 1 hour. Now use a pointy knife to chop it into small diagonals. Bake this in preheated oven for 1 hour.

Sugar Syrup

Take sugar, water, lemon juice in a sauce pan. Boil this for 8 to 10 mins till syrupy. Remove the baklava from oven. pour the syrup throughout it. Top with crushed pistachios. Cool it down and serve.

Variations in Baklava

Cinnamon Flavoured – add ground cinnamon with crushed nuts and use cinnamon flavoured sugar syrup to soak baklava.

Honey Flavoured – Use ½ cup honey with 1 cup sugar to make easy sugar syrup to soak baklava. Be sure that you utilize 2 tsp lemon juice when making syrup.

Mixed nuts – mixture of nuts like walnuts, cashews, almonds and pistachios.

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Baklava Recipe with Step by Step Pictures

1)Take pistachios in a blender or food processor.

2)Add in sugar and crush them coarse.

3)Take the crushed nuts in a bowl.

4)You need to use any mixture of nuts on this recipe. I wish to use pistachios.

5)Use homemade or store bought phyllo pastry.

6)grease baking dish with ghee

7)Spread phyllo pastry on the baking dish. brush top with more ghee. Be sure that you sweep each layer with ghee.

8)Top with more sheets and grease each layer with ghee.

9)You will likely be lining around 8 to 10 sheets of phyllo.

10)Now spread half of the pistachio mix.

11)Drizzle little ghee.

12)Top with one other 9 to 10 sheets of phyllo, Be sure that you grease each layer with ghee.

13)Spread pistachio on top.

14)Top with more sheets and more ghee.

15)slice the baklava into diagonals.

16)Time to bake.

17)When baklava is baking, make sugar syrup. Take sugar in a sauce pan.

18)Add in water.

19)Add lemon juice.

20)Bring every little thing to a boil. cook till syrupy.

21)Now syrup is completed.

22)Meanwhile the baklava is baked.

23)Pour syrup over the baklava.

24)Let the baklava cool down completely.

25)Sprinkle finely chopped pistachios on top.

Baklava Suggestions & Tricks

1. If you happen to are using store bought phyllo sheets then the baking timing may vary. Homemade phyllo needs more baking time. 
2. Traditionally pistachios is utilized in making baklava. You need to use mixture of cashews, almonds and walnuts. 
3. Flavourings like cardamom, orange zest, saffron, cinnamon might be utilized in the sugar syrup.
4. Clarified butter or melted butter might be utilized in between layers.
5. If you happen to are using store bought phyllo dough. Thaw the dough in keeping with package instructions before using. 
6. Store bought or homemade phyllo sheets might be trimmed in keeping with the baking pan size.
7. All the time cover the phyllo sheets with damp cloth so it doesn’t dry out.