Homemade Honey Baklava Delight

Delicious oriental sweets at home. Probably, many who have ever tried various national delicacies, for example, honey baklava, while on vacation in eastern countries, wanted to cook it themselves and please their household. And this is quite possible. However, there is no consensus on the country of origin of this dish; it is prepared in both Turkey and Greece, which is why there are several recipes for baklava. The only thing they all have in common is that baklava is made from thin layers of dough, inside there is a sweet filling and necessarily honey and butter filling.
cook time: 2h
Gavin Tanner
Homemade Honey Baklava Delight

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

418
Calories
25g
Fat
41g
Carbs
6g
Protein

Ingredients (22 portions)

Basic:

Sugar (200g — for filling 100g — for filling) 300 g
Cinnamon 2 g
Wheat flour 450 g
Butter (200g — for dough 100g — for filling) 300 g
Water 100 ml
Honey 100 g
Walnuts 200 g
Sour cream 200 g
Baking powder 1 tsp
Chicken eggs (1- for dough 1- for greasing) 2 pc

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Letʼs prepare the ingredients. All products must be removed from the refrigerator in advance so that they are at room temperature.

Step 2

Step 2
Place softened butter in a bowl; if you don’t have time to wait for it to soften at room temperature, you can soften it in the microwave on low power. Add sour cream there and beat in one chicken egg. Mix everything thoroughly using a tablespoon or blender.

Step 3

Step 3
Pour in the sifted flour and combined with baking powder. Knead the elastic, smooth dough very quickly. You may need a little more or less flour, depending on the density and quality of the product.

Step 4

Step 4
We collect it into a ball. We wrap the dough in cling film and put it in the refrigerator while we make the filling for the baklava. Thanks to this operation, the dough will be flaky, which is what the recipe requires.

Step 5

Step 5
You can use any nuts for the filling, you can use a mixture of walnuts, peanuts and almonds. But there should be more walnuts, immediately put 22 pieces of walnut halves aside, they will be needed to decorate the baklava.

Step 6

Step 6
We thoroughly wash the nuts and dry them in the microwave.

Step 7

Step 7
Put them in a blender bowl, add sugar and cinnamon, grind them, but so that they are larger than crumbs. The blender can be replaced with a simple meat grinder or rolling pin.

Step 8

Step 8
Remove the dough from the refrigerator. We divide it into 7 parts. We roll each layer into a rectangular layer about 0.3 centimeters thick. The filling for baklava should be divided into six equal parts.

Step 9

Step 9
Place the first layer in a greased form. We spread the nut filling on top, and do the same with the entire dough. The top layer of dough remains without filling.

Step 10

Step 10
We cut the dough with filling into parallel strips, but do not reach the bottom with a knife. Then we also cut diagonally without touching the last layer of dough to form diamonds.

Step 11

Step 11
Brush the top of the dough with beaten egg. Place a piece of walnut in the middle of each diamond. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Place the baklava in the oven for 15 minutes.

Step 12

Step 12
Melt the butter. Remove the baklava from the oven and pour melted butter over it. We update the cuts if necessary. Place the baklava in the oven for another half hour.

Step 13

Step 13
Preparing honey filling. Cook the sugar syrup on the stove by combining sugar and water and cook until slightly thickened. Then add honey to the mixture and mix.

Step 14

Step 14
Remove the baklava from the oven and pour in the honey filling. Let it soak a little and cool. We cut it to the end, put it on a dish and serve it to the table. Enjoy your tea!

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