Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Baklava is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 20 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
Take For dough
Take 1 Egg
Make ready 1/2 cup vegetable oil
Get 1 cup milk- water mixture
Prepare 4 cup All-purpose flour(maida)
Take 2 +1/2 Tsp Baking powder
Make ready 1 pinch Salt
Take 2 cup Butter
Take 2 Tbsp Corn starch
Get For Honey Syrup
Take 1 Cup sugar
Prepare 3/4 cup water
Make ready 1/2 cup honey
Prepare 4 cloves
Get 1/4 Tsp Vanilla essence
Make ready 2 Tbsp lemon juice
Prepare For filling
Make ready 1 cups Walnuts (crushed)
Get 1 cup Pistachio (crushed)
Make ready 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
Instructions to make Baklava:
In a large bowl add flour, vegetable oil, egg, salt, baking powder and knead a smooth dough with water and milk mixture. And rest it for 15 minutes.
Divide dough in 4 portions and make balls of each portion and further divide it into 5 balls.
Cover with plastic wrap or damp cloth preventing it from drying out.
Mix cornstarch and flour together in a bowl. - Dust the workplace with cornstarch mix and the roll the ball into circle. And set aside.
Stack them on each other and dust each layer with cornstarch mix so they don’t stick together.
Now gently roll all five layers together until they’re paper thin for about 10-12 inches in diameter.
Directions For Honey Syrup
In a pan heat water, add sugar, honey, cloves, lemon and mix well.
Boil on medium heat until sugar is dissolved and stir continuously.
Remove from heat and let it cool.
Directions for Baklava
In a bowl mix walnut, pistachio and cinnamon powder well.
In a baking pan place 10 dough sheets on one another and butter each sheet well.
Add a layer of crushed nuts, cover it with five more dough sheet and sprinkle crushed nuts on each sheet.
Now cut it into diagonal shape before baking. - Bake at 160 degree for 1 hour or until the top gets golden.
Remove from oven and immediately pour cooled honey syrup evenly over the hot baklava.
Let it settle for 4 to 6 hours and serve.
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