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You can cook Baklava with pistachios using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Baklava with pistachios
- Prepare 40 sheets of filo pastry.
- You need 500 g of butter, I use the one in the glass jar.
- You need 300 g of pistachios (from Aegina).
- It’s of Ingredients for the syrup.
- It’s 650 g of sugar.
- You need 400 g of water.
- It’s 80 g of glucose syrup.
In a large bowl, unroll and loosen phyllo ribbons. If you wish, you can substitute the pistachios with ground walnuts or hazelnuts for a more economical version of this recipe. Go ahead and experiment with different nuts to give you different flavors. A Baklava is a popular Middle Eastern desert with thin crisp layers of buttered filo sheets layered with a sweet pistachio mixture baked crisp then soaked in sugar syrup that just melts in the mouth.
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)..
This simple, easy and effortless recipe for honey pistachio baklava makes the most decadent baklava you will ever taste. Chop pistachios in food processor until finely chopped. Add the icing sugar and cardamom and pulse to combine. Pulse the pistachios in a food processor together with sugar, cinnamon and cloves until fine crumbs. In a separate bowl, melt the butter in the microwave.
