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Simple Way to Make Ultimate Baklava with date filling

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Gregory Robbins

Baklava with date filling

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baklava with date filling. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava with date filling is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Baklava with date filling is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Move the stack carefully and put it in over the cheese filling. Trim the excess dough with sharp scissors. Using on/off turns, process until dates are minced. Add juice; process until coarse paste forms.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have baklava with date filling using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava with date filling:
  1. Get 16 phylo pastry sheets
  2. Prepare 100 gm melted butter
  3. Take for the filling:
  4. Make ready 1/2 kg ripe black dated deseeded and peeled
  5. Get 2 tbsp butter
  6. Get for the syrup:
  7. Take 1 cup sugar
  8. Make ready 1 cup water
  9. Get 1 tsp lemon juice
  10. Take 1 tbsp rose water
  11. Prepare 1 tbsp orange flower water

Here I made Baklava with spring roll sheets. The chocolate and date filling is a welcome departure from the usual nuts. Since the pastry is very sweet, do as the Greeks do and serve in the afternoon Spoon over hot baklava. Baklava is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey.

Instructions to make Baklava with date filling:
  1. FOR THE SYRUP: Prepare it one day ahead. Put Water and Sugar on HIGH heat stir well till Sugar dissolves. boil uncovered for 5 minutes. Add lemon juice, rose water and orange flower water and boil for 2 more minutes. Cool and refrigerate.
  2. FOR THE FILLING: In a heavy base pan on very low heat mix prepared dates and Butter. Simmer for about 30 - 40 minutes stiring on and off until dates turn to a dark red colour and all Water evaporates. Set aside. Keep warm.
  3. ASSEMBLING YOUR DESSERT: Spread one phylo pastry sheet in a buttered baking dish and brush pastry sheet with melted butter. Repeat this process with 8 sheets brushing each sheet with Butter. Spread your warm date filling evenly over the phylo pastry. Spread one phylo pastry sheet over the dates, brush with melted butter. Continue till you finish all the phylo pastry sheets.
  4. Cut the phylo pastry into squares with a sharp knife. The size of each square is up to you.
  5. Preheat oven to 180C. Bake your baklava for 30 minutes. Raise temp to 200C and bake for 10 more minutes till golden brown.
  6. Remove HOT baklava from oven and immediately pour COLD refrigerated syrup over baklava. (This is the secret of a crispy baklava.)
  7. Best eaten same day.
  8. Enjoy

Since the pastry is very sweet, do as the Greeks do and serve in the afternoon Spoon over hot baklava. Baklava is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey. It was one of the most popular sweet pastries of Ottoman cuisine. Baklava is known as a Middle Eastern dessert that is often made of a pastry filled with nuts and is then soaked in honey. This recipe takes a traditional Middle Eastern recipe and puts a slightly healthier and vegan-friendly twist on it.

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