Baklava with pistachios. In a bowl, combine pistachio nuts and butter. Take eight sheets of phyllo dough and layer them in the pan, spreading each sheet with melted butter as you go. Spread about half of the nut mixture over the phyllo dough.
You can cook Baklava with pistachios using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Baklava with pistachios
- It’s 40 sheets of filo pastry.
- You need 500 g of butter, I use the one in the glass jar.
- It’s 300 g of pistachios (from Aegina).
- It’s of Ingredients for the syrup.
- You need 650 g of sugar.
- Prepare 400 g of water.
- You need 80 g of glucose syrup.
Combine the nuts, cinnamon and ground crackers in a bowl. I like making my baklava with walnuts and pistachios combined. Pulse the nuts in a food processor and pour into a bowl. In a separate bowl combine the sugar, flower water, orange blossom water, honey, and simple syrup.
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)..
Add the icing sugar and cardamom and pulse to combine. We wanted our baklava recipe to produce crisp, flaky, buttery lozenges, light yet rich, filled with fragrant nuts and spices, and sweetened just assertively enough to pair with a Turkish coffee. To achieve this goal, we sprinkled store-bought phyllo dough with three separate layers of nuts (pistachios) flavored with cardamom. Baklava is layers of ground nuts and phyllo dough drizzled with a spiced honey syrup after it's done baking. This stuff is sweet but not too sweet, the syrup is perfectly flavored with lemon, honey and cinnamon.
