Baklava Recipe

Baklava Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe combines layers of sugar-soaked crisp phyllo pastry and nut mixture with pistachios.

Baklava

Baklava may seem time consuming dessert to make. But it is actually very easy to make. This baklava is made with minimum ingredients like phyllo pastry, nuts, sugar.

About Baklava Recipe

Baklava is one of the addictive and rich sweet made with phyllo sheets, pistachios. The dish is baked till crispy and soaked in sugar syrup. This baklava is popular around lebanese, greek places.

The first step in baklava making is to get the phyllo pastry. Sadly that is not available in my place. So i was looking for a perfect recipe to make that. Finally i got this recipe and it works like a charm. The key for perfect phyllo pastry is to roll it as thin as possible. 

Making baklava using store bought filo pastry can be so easy, but making everything from scratch is what you call homemade. Baklava is buttery, flaky and nutty and sugary, everything you need in one bite. Since ramadan is around the corner, make this middle eastern dessert and wow your family.

Baklava is just filo pastry brushed with butter all over it and layered between lots of sugary nuts and the whole thing is baked to perfection and soaked in a sugar syrup.

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Ingredients for Baklava Recipe

Baklava is made with phyllo pastry which is layered with sugary nuts mixture and baked till crispy. The baklava is soaked with sugar syrup and allowed to set.

Phyllo Pastry

Phyllo pastry is made with flour, vinegar, olive oil and water. Sometimes eggs is used in the process. I used my homemade phyllo dough. The key is to roll the dough as thin as possible.

Nuts

I like to use pistachios. But any nuts can be used in the baklava recipe.

Sugar Syrup

Sugar syrup can be flavoured with any ingredients you like. Some ingredients are orange peel, lemon peel, cardamom, cinnamon. You can use half sugar and half honey in the syrup.

How to Make Baklava at Home

Pre-Preparation

Preheat oven to 190 degree C.Take a square baking pan and brush it generously with ghee and set aside.

Making Filling

Take pistachios, sugar in a blender or food processor. Crush them coarse and set aside. This is your filling. You can use combination of any nuts in this.

Assembling Baklava

Spread phyllo sheets in the pan, you need to spread 10 layers of phyllo sheets. spread ghee between each layer. Now spread ½ of the pistachio mix over the phyllo pastry. Now spread another 10 layers of phyllo pastry. Make sure you grease each layer with ghee. Now spoon the remaining half of the pistachio mix and top with another 10 layer of phyllo pastry. Make sure you grease each layer with ghee.

Baking Baklava

Now use a sharp knife to cut it into small diagnols. Bake this in preheated oven for 1 hour. Now use a sharp knife to cut it into small diagonals. Bake this in preheated oven for 1 hour.

Sugar Syrup

Take sugar, water, lemon juice in a sauce pan. Boil this for 8 to 10 mins till syrupy. Remove the baklava from oven. pour the syrup all over it. Top with crushed pistachios. Cool it down and serve.

Variations in Baklava

Cinnamon Flavoured - add ground cinnamon with crushed nuts and use cinnamon flavoured sugar syrup to soak baklava.

Honey Flavoured - Use ½ cup honey with 1 cup sugar to make simple sugar syrup to soak baklava. Make sure you use 2 tsp lemon juice when making syrup.

Mixed nuts - mixture of nuts like walnuts, cashews, almonds and pistachios.

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Baklava Recipe with Step by Step Pictures

1)Take pistachios in a blender or food processor.

2)Add in sugar and crush them coarse.

3)Take the crushed nuts in a bowl.

4)You can use any mixture of nuts in this recipe. I like to use pistachios.

5)Use homemade or store bought phyllo pastry.

6)grease baking dish with ghee

7)Spread phyllo pastry on the baking dish. brush top with more ghee. Make sure you brush each layer with ghee.

8)Top with more sheets and grease each layer with ghee.

9)You will be lining around 8 to 10 sheets of phyllo.

10)Now spread half of the pistachio mix.

11)Drizzle little ghee.

12)Top with another 9 to 10 sheets of phyllo, Make sure you grease each layer with ghee.

13)Spread pistachio on top.

14)Top with more sheets and more ghee.

15)slice the baklava into diagonals.

16)Time to bake.

17)When baklava is baking, make sugar syrup. Take sugar in a sauce pan.

18)Add in water.

19)Add lemon juice.

20)Bring everything to a boil. cook till syrupy.

21)Now syrup is done.

22)Meanwhile the baklava is baked.

23)Pour syrup over the baklava.

24)Let the baklava cool down completely.

25)Sprinkle finely chopped pistachios on top.

Baklava Tips & Tricks

1. If you are using store bought phyllo sheets then the baking timing may vary. Homemade phyllo needs more baking time. 
2. Traditionally pistachios is used in making baklava. You can use mixture of cashews, almonds and walnuts. 
3. Flavourings like cardamom, orange zest, saffron, cinnamon can be used in the sugar syrup.
4. Clarified butter or melted butter can be used in between layers.
5. If you are using store bought phyllo dough. Thaw the dough according to package instructions before using. 
6. Store bought or homemade phyllo sheets can be trimmed according to the baking pan size.
7. Always cover the phyllo sheets with damp cloth so it doesn't dry out.