Baklava with pistachios
Baklava with pistachios

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, baklava with pistachios. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava with pistachios is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Baklava with pistachios is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Baklava is made with a variety of nuts across the Mediterranean and Middle East, the most common being walnuts, pistachios and almonds. Sometimes just one of these, sometimes a combination. Here are some regional varieties: In the traditional baklava, nuts are layered between buttered paper-thin sheets of phyllo.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have baklava with pistachios using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava with pistachios:
  1. Take 40 sheets filo pastry
  2. Prepare 500 g butter, I use the one in the glass jar
  3. Make ready 300 g pistachios (from Aegina)
  4. Make ready Ingredients for the syrup
  5. Take 650 g sugar
  6. Get 400 g water
  7. Prepare 80 g glucose syrup

Baklava is layers of ground nuts and phyllo dough drizzled with a spiced honey syrup after it's done baking. This stuff is sweet but not too sweet, the syrup is perfectly flavored with lemon, honey and cinnamon. Traditionally, walnuts are used but I used pecans. You can also use almonds or pistachios, or even a combination of nuts.

Steps to make Baklava with pistachios:
  1. Melt the butter but don't let it brown.
  2. Blend the pistachios in the blender into powder (if they are coarsely blended the baklava filo sheets will not stick together).
  3. Line an oblog baking tray of 30x45 cm with butter (you can use a baking tray in the dimensions that you have just make sure that it is relatively large) and spread out half the filo sheets brushing each one with butter.
  4. Spread out the pistachios all over the baking tray and cover with the 20 remaining filo sheets brushing one by one with butter.
  5. Place the baking tray into the fridge to cool so you can cut the pieces.
  6. Cut into small square pieces, sprinkle with a little water so that they don't lift up while baking and bake in a very slow oven at 130-140οC for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
  7. Remove from the oven and pour the syrup over it, hot.
  8. To make the syrup, boil the sugar, water and glucose syrup for 3 minutes (count 3 minutes from the moment it starts to boil).

Thirty crisp layers of buttery phyllo and heaps of fragrant pistachios, combine to make an utterly delicious, light yet rich baklava that tastes like it came straight from a Turkish bakery. Happy first day of Ramadan to all those who celebrate! As for everyone else…enjoy the ride! This year I'm showering the Holy […] One of the most coveted baklavas of them all is pistachio baklava made with bright green, raw pistachio nuts. If you wish, you can substitute the pistachios with ground walnuts or hazelnuts for a more economical version of this recipe.

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