Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a Best dish, baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. 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 is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Baklava is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baklava using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Take phyllo
2. Get ground walnuts
3. Make ready brown sugar
4. Get ground cinnamon
5. Make ready water
6. Take lemon juice
7. Prepare maple syrup
8. Take olive oil
9. Make ready milk

Baklava is a Mediterranean dessert with layers of phyllo dough, nuts and honey. I've also included two authentic baklava recipes for you to try: a fancy and more involved recipe as well as a simple. Not to be confused with balaclava or Balaklava. The iconic Baklava is astonishingly straight forward to make!

Steps to make Baklava:

1. To make the filling: combine brown sugar, cinnamon and walnuts.
2. Place 3 sheets of phyllo in the prepared pan lightly brushed with butter, spread half of the filling, top with 3 more sheets, add the other half of filling and end with the last 3 sheets of phyllo. Brush the top with butter.
3. To make the syrup: stir the water, lemon juice, maple syrup until all dissolves on low heat and let it cool once done.
4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
5. With a sharp knife cut the top layer of phyllo in triangles.
6. Just before baking, lightly sprinkle with cold water. This inhibits the pastry from curling.
7. Bake it for about 20-30 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown.
8. Cut through the scored lines and drizzle the cooled syrup slowly over the hot baklava. Let it cool and serve it at room temperature.

The iconic Baklava is my all time favourite pastry that I can't get enough of. You'll love how homemade Baklava is not overly sweet and. 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. Baklava uses phyllo dough stacked with honey and nuts to make a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone will love.

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