Recipe baklava with walnuts

Baklava is a famous confectionery product, the most popular in Turkish cuisine. It is a dessert made of a thin puff pastry impregnated with a solution of sugar with spices and a large quantity of walnuts.

At home, the process of creating baklava with walnuts is quite laborious. This is primarily due to the preparation of the dough, the thickness of the layer should not exceed one millimeter. This defect is easily compensated by purchasing a puff pastry filo in the store and the time is greatly saved.

We offer you a few simple recipes for baklava with walnuts.

Lazy baklava with walnuts

Ingredients:

• dough filo - 1 pack;
• walnuts, peeled - 320 g;
• butter - 200 g;
• flower honey - 100 g;
• granulated sugar - 200 g;
• water - 200 ml;
• a peel of one lemon.

Preparation

Peeled walnuts mash properly with a rolling pin or grind in a blender or meat grinder. We put two layers of dough on the baking sheet, cover it with carefully melted cream butter and again lay out two layers of dough. Now sprinkle a layer of nuts and a little lemon zest. We repeat this several times until the last layer of the test, which is necessarily oiled from above. The resulting sweet cake is cut into equal diamonds or squares, each of which is placed one half of the walnut. We send the pan with baklava in a preheated to 180 degree oven for about twenty-five minutes.

We dissolve sugar and honey in water, put it on a stove, bring it to a boil, boil for five minutes. Baked baklava poured into honeyed syrup and leave to soak for several hours.

Simple baklava recipe with walnuts

Ingredients:

• dough without yeast puff - 800 g;
• walnuts, peeled - 370 g;
• butter - 100 g;
• honey - 200 g;
• granulated sugar - 100 g;
• powdered sugar - 25 g;
• cinnamon - 20 g;
• egg yolk - 1 pc.
• water 75 ml.

Preparation

Crushed walnuts are mixed with sugar powder and cinnamon. Defrosted puff pastry is divided into eight identical parts and each roll as thin as possible. We lay on the baking sheet two layers, each of which we smear with melted butter. On the second layer, distribute one third of the filling, cover with the next two layers of dough with butter and again spread out the filling. Spread the top with egg yolk mixed with a small amount of water, cut the canvas into rhombuses or rectangles and bake in a preheated to 180 degree oven for forty-five minutes.

Then baklava slightly cool and pour evenly syrup, prepared from water, honey and sugar and cooked for seven minutes, and leave to impregnate for seven to eight hours.

To the delight of sweet tooth, delicious baklava is ready.