Easy Homemade Turkish Baklava Recipe
April 17, 2020
Are you a turkish baklava lover?
I adore the sweet, special the homemade turkish baklava, it is so easy to make, you just need a ready to use baklava dough, i bought mine to make my easy homemade turkish Baklava, but you can search for a homemade Phyllo or filo dough and prepare it, if it hard to find the filo. Form my why to make it at home if you can get it ready, it will takes time and force and i love the easy and delicious recipe with quick and less force, that’s why it is so easy to make. You will need a cup of your favorite nuts, i love pistachio so i made it with pistachio but you can also make it with walnut, almonds or cajo.
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Homemade Turkish Baklava
Prep time: 30 minutes Baking time: 25 minutes Yield: 50 pieces
Ingredients:
- 500g ready baklava dough (phyllo dough)
- 1 cup Crushed pistachio
- 1 cup melted butter
For syrup: - 2 cups sugar
- 1 and 1/2 cup water
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon rose water
Instructions
- Prepare the syrup, in a saucepan put the 2 cups sugar with water. Boil first on a high heat, then reduce heat to medium, keep stir then add the lemon juice. When the syrup star thicken add rose water and remove from heat.
- Grease a 33 cm tray with butter, add first layer of baklava. Grease with another layer of butter, add another baklava layer, repeat for the next 14 layers.
- On the 14 layers add the pistachio.
- Cover with another layer of baklava sheet dough, grease it; add another layer without grease it . Then add another layer and grease it, repeat the 14 layers until end with a non grease last layer.
- Cut the extra edges dough with a knife, then cut the baklava into a small rectangles.
- Pour the leftover butter at the top of baklava.
- Spread with a brush.
- Bake at 200°C for 25 minutes.When out of oven, pour the syrup on the baklava.
- Cool completely before serve it.
Enjoy!
