Baklava with date filling
Baklava with date filling

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Grease a baking dish, layer in phyllo dough and then add in the date-nut mixture. Phyllo dough that's flaky and buttery with crunchy. This vegan date baklava is a healthier take on this classic Middle-Eastern dessert.

Baklava with date filling is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Baklava with date filling is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have baklava with date filling using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava with date filling:
  1. Prepare 16 phylo pastry sheets
  2. Make ready 100 gm melted butter
  3. Get for the filling:
  4. Get 1/2 kg ripe black dated deseeded and peeled
  5. Take 2 tbsp butter
  6. Make ready for the syrup:
  7. Take 1 cup sugar
  8. Get 1 cup water
  9. Get 1 tsp lemon juice
  10. Get 1 tbsp rose water
  11. Take 1 tbsp orange flower water

This honey baklava is flaky, crisp and tender and I love that it isn't overly sweet. It's basically a party in your mouth. Garnish baklava with finely chopped nuts or drizzle with melted chocolate. Baklava pastry recipe, layers of phyllo dough filled with honey, walnuts and pistachios.

Steps to make Baklava with date filling:
  1. FOR THE SYRUP: Prepare it one day ahead. Put Water and Sugar on HIGH heat stir well till Sugar dissolves. boil uncovered for 5 minutes. Add lemon juice, rose water and orange flower water and boil for 2 more minutes. Cool and refrigerate.
  2. FOR THE FILLING: In a heavy base pan on very low heat mix prepared dates and Butter. Simmer for about 30 - 40 minutes stiring on and off until dates turn to a dark red colour and all Water evaporates. Set aside. Keep warm.
  3. ASSEMBLING YOUR DESSERT: Spread one phylo pastry sheet in a buttered baking dish and brush pastry sheet with melted butter. Repeat this process with 8 sheets brushing each sheet with Butter. Spread your warm date filling evenly over the phylo pastry. Spread one phylo pastry sheet over the dates, brush with melted butter. Continue till you finish all the phylo pastry sheets.
  4. Cut the phylo pastry into squares with a sharp knife. The size of each square is up to you.
  5. Preheat oven to 180C. Bake your baklava for 30 minutes. Raise temp to 200C and bake for 10 more minutes till golden brown.
  6. Remove HOT baklava from oven and immediately pour COLD refrigerated syrup over baklava. (This is the secret of a crispy baklava.)
  7. Best eaten same day.
  8. Enjoy

Baklava is a delicious phyllo pastry popular in Middle Eastern countries. Its supposed origins are Turkish, dating to the Byzantine Empire (or even further), though many cultures claim it for their own. Baklava is a rich, sweet dessert pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup, frosting or honey. Baklava, or baklawa, is a delicious pastry that is known worldwide with variations depending on where in the Middle East you are. Baklava - How to Make Baklawa.

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