Easiest Way to Make Favorite Baklava

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Take 60 gm almonds finally chopped
2. Get 50 gm pistachios finally chopped
3. Make ready 1/2 cup unsalted butter
4. Make ready For syrup
5. Make ready 1 cup sugar
6. Make ready 1 cup water
7. Take 1 tbsp lemon juice
8. Make ready 1 tsp Cinnaman power
9. Take For dough
10. Prepare 2 cup maida(all purpose flour)
11. Take 1 tbsp baking powder
12. Prepare 1/4 cup oil
13. Get 1/4 cup milk
14. Get 100 gm melted butter
15. Get 1 cup corn starch

Instructions to make Baklava:

1. Brush a baking tray with butter. - To make sugar syrup, combine 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water by adding cinnamon and lemon. Let it boil and simmer for 10 minutes.Keep it aside.
2. Place flour in a mixing bowl, make a well in the center. Drizzle in oil and add salt; add water. Mix until dough just comes together and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, 1 or 2 minutes. Transfer dough ball to a lightly floured work surface.
3. When you have 5 circles, roll out the stack to a larger circle about double in size, turning as you go to maintain a round shape. Separate each layer and lay out the circles. Re-apply more cornstarch mixture where needed and restack them. Roll again until the 5-layer stack is paper thin, about 10 to 12 inches in diameter. Place on a sheet of parchment
4. Knead until dough is smooth, using just enough flour to keep it from sticking to the work surface or your hands, 2 or 3 minutes. Continue to knead until dough is supple and elastic, about 5 more minutes. Wrap dough ball in plastic wrap and let rest at room temperature, 1 to 2 hours.
5. Divide dough in equal portions roll each portion into a ball. Place on plate and cover with plastic wrap to prevent dough balls from drying out while you begin to roll them out.
6. Mix cornstarch and 2 tablespoons flour together in a bowl. Dust a work surface and the first dough ball with the cornstarch mixture. Flatten out the dough ball and roll out into a circle Dust again with cornstarch mixture. Set circle to one side. Roll out 4 more dough balls to about the same diameter and stack them on the first one, dusting each layer with more of the cornstarch mixture to keep them from sticking together.
7. Brush a good amount of butter in sheet before and after shaping baklava.butter will give a nice colour of baklava.for perfect baklava you give put of lot of dry fruits.add shown in figure.
8. Bake in preheated oven 140degree c for 45 minute..after bake, pour sugar syrup in baklava at least 4 hours. Then serve it

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