Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, indian baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Indian Baklava is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Indian Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Photo: Annabelle Breakey; Styling: Randy Mon. Baklava is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup. Baklava is a rich, sweet dessert pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup, frosting or honey.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have indian baklava using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Indian Baklava:
- Get Saffron Syrup
- Prepare 3/4 cup water
- Take 1 1/2 cup sugar
- Take 1/8 tsp saffron threads
- Prepare 4 1/2 tsp rose water
- Make ready Baklava
- Prepare 1/2 cup raw walnuts
- Get 1/2 cup raw almonds
- Get 1 tsp cardamom
- Take 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- Get 1 pkg. (1 lb.) frozen filo, thawed
- Make ready 1 cup ghee
- Make ready 3 tbsp shelled unsalted pistachios, finely ground
Instead of honey I used sugar to glaze and flavored with cardamom. See more ideas about Indian sweets, Indian food recipes and Indian desserts. This baklava is flaky, crisp, tender and I love that it's not overly sweet. No store-bought baklava can touch this!
Steps to make Indian Baklava:
- Crush saffron with a mortar and pestle or on a plate with the handle of a wooden spoon. In a small saucepan, mix sugar, 3/4 cup water, and the saffron. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring often, until liquid is reduced to 1 1/2 cups, about 5 minutes. Let cool, then stir in rose water.
- Preheat oven to 325°. In a food processor, whirl walnuts, almonds, cardamom, and nutmeg until nuts are coarsely ground.
- Unroll filo with a long side facing you and cut in half into two 9- by 13-in. pieces. Stack pieces and cover with a kitchen towel to keep from drying out.
- Brush bottom and sides of a 9- by 13-in. baking dish with ghee. Peel off 1 sheet filo, lay in pan, and brush with ghee. Layer 12 more sheets on top, brushing each with ghee (it's okay if some sheets are torn or not fitting evenly in pan).
- Sprinkle half the nut mixture over filo. Lay another sheet of filo on top, gathering it to fit into pan and brushing with ghee. Repeat with 12 more sheets of filo, buttering each. Sprinkle on remaining nut mixture. Layer remaining sheets of filo on top, buttering each as before.
- Cut baklava into 32 squares. Bake until top is golden and crisp and edges pull away from pan sides, 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours. Cool pan on a rack 30 minutes.
- Pour saffron syrup over baklava. Let sit to absorb most of the syrup, at least 3 hours (overnight is better). Sprinkle each square with 1/4 tsp. ground pistachios.
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