Baklava with pistachios. Baklava one of my favorite desserts! It's sweet, crunchy, a filled with delicious nuts. This recipe shows you how to achieve the BEST.
This Turkish-style baklava tastes deeply and richly of pistachio nuts and butter, without the spices, honey or aromatics found in other versions. It has a purity of flavor that, while still quite sweet. Then set the pistachios aside and allow them. You can cook Baklava with pistachios using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Baklava with pistachios
- Prepare of filo pastry.
- It's of butter, I use the one in the glass jar.
- You need of pistachios (from Aegina).
- It's of Ingredients for the syrup.
- Prepare of sugar.
- It's of water.
- Prepare of glucose syrup.
Among its ingredients is pistachio which is cultivated in Gaziantep and which is also known as "gray pistachio". Baklava; image from Ozlem's Turkish Table cookery book, by Sian Irvine Photography. Buttery, flaky puff pastry soaked in honey and sugar with tender pistachios stuffed between layers of dough. This Baklava recipe reigns from Turkey were the best pistachios in.
Baklava with pistachios instructions
- Melt the butter but don't let it brown..
- Blend the pistachios in the blender into powder (if they are coarsely blended the baklava filo sheets will not stick together)..
- Line an oblog baking tray of 30x45 cm with butter (you can use a baking tray in the dimensions that you have just make sure that it is relatively large) and spread out half the filo sheets brushing each one with butter..
- Spread out the pistachios all over the baking tray and cover with the 20 remaining filo sheets brushing one by one with butter..
- Place the baking tray into the fridge to cool so you can cut the pieces..
- Cut into small square pieces, sprinkle with a little water so that they don't lift up while baking and bake in a very slow oven at 130-140οC for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours..
- Remove from the oven and pour the syrup over it, hot..
- To make the syrup, boil the sugar, water and glucose syrup for 3 minutes (count 3 minutes from the moment it starts to boil)..
I love all baklava, but pistachio is my favorite. There's just something about pistachios, they are my favorite nuts. Maybe it's the saltiness that I like so much but I could snack on them all the time. The Baklava with Pistachios recipe out of our category Filo Dough! Turkish pistachio pastry dessert baklava with green pistachios.