Recipe for Baklava honey Turkish and video selection of interesting recipes

Honey baklava in Turkish is the famous oriental sweet dainty from puff pastry.

For the first time its recipe appeared in August 1453 in Turkey. However, despite this fact, some believe that it is from Persia that it originates honey honey.

The recipe we know is Turkish, because it was the chef from Turkey who managed to roll out the dough for this dessert so finely that it was possible to read books through it. Turkish baklava included a filling and syrup. Already from Turkey, the recipe spread to neighboring countries, where it was changed according to local traditions and tastes. Therefore, today there are a huge number of recipes for honeyed Turkish baklava.

Baklava in Turkish

Today we will consider the Turkish and Azerbaijani options for cooking this amazing delicacy.

To make the most delicious honey baklava in the world in Turkey, we need 2 cups of wheat flour, half a glass of milk, 1 cup of melted butter, 1 egg, 1 egg yolk, 20 grams.pressed yeast, 200 gr.walnuts, 1 glass of powdered sugar, 80 gr.honey, ground cardamom seeds on the tip of the knife and salt to taste.

First you need to dilute the yeast and salt. Then add the egg, a little butter, flour and knead the dough. Next, cover it with a cloth and put it for about 40 minutes in a warm place.

To prepare the filling, you need to pass through the meat grinder nuts and combine them with sugar powder, cardamom and honey. When the dough approaches, then it is necessary to roll out thin cakes and lay them on a baking tray, lubricating each with melted butter. It turns out 14-16 thin cakes.

The first and last cakes should be laid out without stuffing, and the rest of the cakes should be sandwiched with filling every 2 times.

Then you need to grease the baklava with egg yolk, cut into diamonds and bake for about 30 minutes in a preheated oven to 180 ° C.Ready baklava should be poured with the remaining melted butter.

And they cook baklava in Azerbaijan

To make baklava in Azerbaijani you need to take half a glass of wheat flour, 60 gr.melted butter, 4 tbsp.l.milk, 1 egg, 8 g.yeast, 200 g.walnuts or peeled almonds, half a glass of sugar, 0.2 gr.vanillin, 0.3 gr.saffron and 20 gr.honey.

First you need to mix flour, salt, sugar, egg and yeast. Then pour hot milk into the flour and knead the dough. The dough should be aged for an hour and a half, and then thinly roll it 0.5 cm thick.

The layer of dough should then be put on a greased baking sheet and sprinkled with crushed nuts with sugar. Then cover it with a second layer of dough and grease also with oil. So it is necessary to make several layers of the test.

Next, baklava should be cut into rhombuses and greased with yolk mixed with saffron. In the middle of each piece of baklava lies half of the nut.

Honey baklava is baked in a preheated 200 degrees Celsius oven for about 35-40 minutes. Somewhere 15 minutes before it is fully baked, it should be poured with honey or sugar syrup.

Some interesting video recipes

So do baklava in Turkey:

And so in Azerbaijan:

Quick recipe:

Lazy baklava: