Name: Recipe: Perfect Pistachio Baklava
Prep time: 11 min
Cook time: 47 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 500 gm Wheat flour; 50 gm Milk powder; 5 ml Vinegar; 250 ml Sugar syrup; 200 gm Breakfast sugar; 100 ml Water; 8 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Orange blossom water; 400 gm Pistachio power

Pistachio Baklava. 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 cook Pistachio Baklava using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pistachio Baklava

It’s 500 gm of Wheat flour.
You need 50 gm of Milk powder.
You need 5 ml of Vinegar.
Prepare 250 ml of Sugar syrup.
Prepare 200 gm of Breakfast sugar.
Prepare 100 ml of Water.
You need 8 ml of Lemon juice.
Prepare 5 ml of Orange blossom water.
Prepare 400 gm of Pistachio power.

One of the most coveted baklavas of them all is pistachio baklava made with bright green, raw pistachio nuts. 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. Thirty crisp layers of buttery phyllo and heaps of fragrant pistachios, combine to make an utterly delicious, light yet rich baklava that tastes like it came straight from a Turkish bakery.

Pistachio Baklava instructions

Step 1 Mix all the ingredients and knead well just to combine..
Divide the dough to 50 g each. Step 2 Place on a tray. Dust some cornflour, cover with wet muslin cloth and rest overnight in chiller. Step 3 Roll the dough with the help of cornflour. Roll five thin sheets and keep on top of each other and roll again. Step 4 Brush with clarified butter..
Cut in square shape and fill with fine chopped pistachio. Step 5 Place on a baking tray and pour clarified butter to soak the baklava. Bake.

Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the honey, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Baklava with phyllo, syrup and pistachios makes a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone will love. This pistachio baklava is the Constantinople (or Istanbul) version. I wanted to honor my paternal grandma Evgenia who was an amazing woman, from Poli as Greeks call the famous city.