Pastry Recipes Typical Middle East: Baklava

Pastry Recipes Typical Middle East: Baklava
This time share recipes typical Turkish sweet pastry, baklava. Baklava is a sweet pastry made of leather stuffing pastry with nuts, and doused with syrup or honey.

Ingredients:

• 16 sheets of pastry shell
• 50 g butter, melted
• 1/5 cup nuts, chopped finely
• 1/8 cup sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon powder
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 cup sweet syrup / syrup vanilla / honey
• Rough chopped peanuts for garnish

How to Make:

1. Preheat oven to a temperature of 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Mix finely chopped nuts with powdered cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Stir well. Set aside.
3. Prepare a baking sheet. Cut the pastry shell the size of the pan to be used. Grease a baking dish with butter. Brush the pastry shell with butter, stacks 4 in the pan. Add bean mixture in the next layer. Flatten. Repeat the process until the desired thickness or until the pastry shell exhausted.
4. Cut a square, or other desired shape.
5. Bake in oven for 20-30 minutes until golden and cooked through.
6. Once cooked, remove from heat and let stand for a moment. Flush with sweet syrup / syrup vanilla / honey, and let stand until the syrup soak into the cake. Also can stores in the refrigerator.
7. Garnish with a sprinkling of chopped nuts. Serve
8. Tips:
9. Pastry shell available in grocery stores or large supermarkets.
10. Entries can be any beans to taste. Peanuts, cashews, walnuts, pistachios, etc. For a layer of mashed beans until smooth, or can also use a food processor.
11. This cake are very sweet and contains butter in large quantities. Not suitable for dietary or who have problems with sugar.
12. If fear is too sweet, can also be separated between the honey cake, and adjusted the amount of honey that watered cake.
13. If the hard cut Baklava into the box. Just make Baklava Roll. 2 layers of pastry shell in basting with butter, give nut stuffing, and roll. Arrange in a baking dish, spread with butter again. Bake until cooked, and flush with syrup or honey.

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