Baklava

Duygu
Duygu @duygu
Bristol UK

Baklava is rich, sweet dessert pastry  made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup.

Baklava

Baklava is rich, sweet dessert pastry  made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup.

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Ingredients

  1. 2 packsfilo dough
  2. 300 grwalnut (fine chopped)
  3. 250 grbutter
  4. 400 grsugar
  5. 300 mlwater
  6. 1cinnamon stick
  7. Whipped cream (200 gr) (optional)

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    First add sugar and stick cinnamon into water and boiled for 15 minutes. Leave to cool.

  2. 2

    Cut filo sheets as your tray's size (it is hard to cut after finished) and cover them with a clean tea towel. (Because they are getting dry quickly)

  3. 3

    Melt your butter but not burn

  4. 4

    Spread butter on tray and put one sheet of filo spread butter on sheet. You will do same thing every sheet when you finished half of sheets.

  5. 5

    Add walnut crumbs on the sheet and spread whipped cream on walnuts (if you want to have more crunchy you shouldn't add cream)

  6. 6

    Put a sheet of filo and spread melted butter on sheet. Continue to do put sheet and spread butter till finished your sheets. Spread butter top of pastry and cut before cooked. (if you prefer you can spread walnuts every 5 sheets)

  7. 7

    Put 180°c before heated oven and cook for minimum 40 mins. (if you bake too quick it could be soft inside we don't want to do this)

  8. 8

    Add your cold syrup on warm baklava with a large spoon. Sprinkle the walnut crunchs top of your baklava. Enjoy!

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Cookpad UK member and Cookpad UK ambassador.I am from Turkey. I am full time mum of 6 year old girl. Baking and cooking is my passion since I was a little girl. I am trying to improve my cooking skills. I am in love with Turkish and Ottoman dishes but I also like to try different culture's dishes especially Far East Cuisine and Italian Cuisine.I am trying to share my recipes in Cook Pad. Thanks for the Cook Pad team to always keep touch with us and support us.
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Comments (5)

Aunty Eiko's international cuisine experience
Aunty Eiko's international cuisine experience @auntyeiko
Dear Duygu, I’m so happy to say that your Baklava recipe written in Japanese is now on cookpad news in Japan. https://foodclip.cookpad.com/16150/
See this please. So nice. I’m so proud.

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