Baklava with pistachios. This Turkish-style baklava tastes deeply and richly of pistachio nuts and butter, without the spices, honey or aromatics found in other versions. It has a purity of flavor that, while still quite. In a bowl, combine pistachio nuts and butter.
You can have Baklava with pistachios using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Baklava with pistachios
- You need 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).
- Prepare of Ingredients for the syrup.
- Prepare 650 g of sugar.
- It’s 400 g of water.
- Prepare 80 g of glucose syrup.
This post may contain affiliate links to Amazon and other sides. This blog generates income via ads #sponsoredpost. 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 with pistachios step by step
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)..
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. 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.
