How to cook baklava at home? This dish is just a unique oriental dessert.
After all, the ingredients that are required for him are absolutely simple and affordable. And the result will be amazing and will appeal to all lovers of sweets. Let’s find out how to cook baklava at home in order to please all of your home with it.
A bit of history
Before you cook baklava at home, let's pay a little attention to the origin of this dessert. According to an ancient oriental cookbook, it was invented by a chef of an Ottoman sultan in the fourteenth century. Although there are versions that the first baklava, then called “paklava”, was prepared several centuries earlier, but also on the territory of modern Turkey. The conventional wisdom that this is a Greek dessert is incorrect. In Greece, this dessert was improved, starting to make it with a special puff pastry "filo".
How to cook baklava at home? The basics
Puff pastry, butter, honey and nuts are the main ingredients from which we can prepare this amazing delicacy. The principle is simple and understandable to everyone. Dough sheets are layered with honey, butter and a spicy nut-sugar mixture. Knowing how to cook baklava in Azerbaijani, you can make this dessert in almost any of its variations. After all, they are all identical. Honey syrup and nut filling are present in any of them. So, let's begin. Knead the baklava dough first. After pouring in a half glass of milk, slightly warmed over low heat, a teaspoon of sugar and a bag of dried yeast, leave the mixture for a while. Yeast will rise. In the meantime, mix half a kilogram of flour with two tablespoons of butter, a glass of sour cream, two eggs.
Add a pinch of salt. Mix yeast and flour mixes. Mash the resulting dough until smooth. Knead on a table sprinkled with flour for a while, then cover with a towel and leave to walk in a warm room.
How to cook honey baklava? Let's get stuffed
Ideally, it is desirable to flavor the nut-butter mixture with vanilla, cinnamon and cardamom. But you can do without spices, this dessert will not get much worse. Fry a quarter kilogram of peeled walnuts in the oven, grind in a meat grinder or using a blender, mix with the same amount of icing sugar and vanilla. Take a packet of butter and melt in a separate container. For syrup, mix a glass of liquid honey with half a cup of hot water.
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Prepare a pan with high sides or a pan, greasing the container with vegetable oil. Divide the approached dough into 12 equal pieces. Roll out alternately and, having greased the layer laid in the form with butter, sprinkle with the filling. Calculate in advance that it is enough for 11 layers. Smear the last layer of dough with an egg, cut the baklava into rhombuses, cutting not to the bottom, allow to distance in a warm place. Bake until browned. Pour the finished baklava with syrup while it is still hot.