Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Baklava is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Baklava is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baklava using 10 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Prepare 1 packages Phyllo dough (comes with 2 rolls)
- Make ready 4 cup Pecans or Walnuts (I use pecans)
- Get 1 tsp Cinnamon
- Get 1 1/2 stick Butter (melted)
- Take 2 cup Honey (16oz)
- Make ready 1/2 cup Water
- Make ready 1/2 cup Sugar
- Get 3 tsp Vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tbsp American Honey whiskey (optional)
- Prepare 1 stick Butter (for sauce)
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Instructions to make Baklava:
- Pre-heat oven to 350. Unroll the phyllo dough and place a moist kitchen towel over the sheets. Do NOT let the dough d
- Generously butter your choice of baking pan. If the phyllo dough is a lot larger trim the dough with kitchen scissors. You will always be using 2 phyllo sheets at a time.
- Melt butter (1 1/2 sticks)
- Mix nuts and cinnamon in a bowl. Set aside
- Pick up 2 phyllo sheets and place into the buttered baking dish
- Using a basting brush, brush melted butter onto the phyllo sheets you placed in the baking dish
- Repeat steps 5 & 6 three more times
- Sprinkle nuts on top of the buttered phyllo. (A single layer that covers the dough)
- Pick up 2 phyllo sheets and place on top the nuts, butter, add nuts
- Repeat until you run out of nuts (approx 4 more times)
- Now begin layering and buttering just the phyllo dough like in steps 5 & 6. Repeat 4-5x
- Using a sharp knife, cut into squares and then into a diamond pattern. Place in the oven for 30-40 min or when the baklava is a deep golden brown.
- In a saucepan melt 1 stick of butter, water, sugar, honey, vanilla, whiskey (optional). Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to low. Simmer for 15-20 minutes
- Remove baklava from the oven and slowly pour 1/2 the sauce over the golden baklava. Once absorbed, pour the remaining sauce.
- Allow the baklava to cool uncovered for serval hours. It tastes better with time. Note: It can get soggy if covered.
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