baklava

A delicious oriental pastry that I present, it is with a coffee that I tasted this almond baklava to change nuts. The dough is homemade for a very crisp result. The almonds are not coarsely ground so as to appreciate them well during the tasting. all soaked with honey perfumed with orange blossom water.
the almond baklawa is really good and you will not be disappointed. I drew you a diagram of the cutting of the cake to obtain a beautiful rosette. Follow the path of the photos. This paste can be replaced by filo paste to save time. At the end of Ramadan during the preparation of your cakes Aid, this recipe will be very valuable.

It is undoubtedly one of the most popular oriental pastries: almond baklava. Consumed primarily during Ramadan, almond baklava is a cake made from thin pasta leaves and ground almonds and hazelnuts. Covered with honey, this pastry is a delight for the taste buds, it will nevertheless require patience and time for its realization.

baklawa recipe with almonds and hazelnuts

Ingredients (1 tray)

Baklava with almonds

For the dough:

700g sifted flour

300g of fine semolina

60g of butter.

Starch

For the stuffing:

300g ground almonds

150g whole almonds

200g of nuts

300g of hazelnuts

350 of sugar

400g of melted butter

1 packet of powdered starch

1 liter of sugar syrup

Orange tree Flower water

Preparation

Grill the dried fruits (almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts) in the oven for about 15 minutes. Then remove the dried fruits and peel them. Reserve 150g of whole almonds, they will be used to decorate the baklava.
Mix everything in the blender, taking care to keep a slightly grainy texture. Add to this mixture the sugar as well as orange blossom water (at your convenience depending if you like this flavor)
Then let's go to the making of the dough. For this, pour the flour, semolina into a container and add 60g of butter and a pinch of salt. Knead the dough by adding water from time to time until a firm dough is obtained.

Divide the dough into 14 equal balls. Flatten each of them with a rolling pin until you have an extremely fine dough. Sprinkle lightly from time to time.

Almond Baklava - thin paste

Butter your tray arrange the first sheet and moisten with melted butter using a kitchen brush. Then arrange one by one, 6 more leaves by moistening each one with melted butter. (There must be 7 leaves left).
Pour the mixture previously made in step 2 onto the leaves. Then proceed in the same way, covering the last 7 leaves by moistening them one by one with butter. With the help of a knife cut (strongly) the top by forming lozenges.

Here's how to get a nice result: baklawa cutout

You have previously reserved 150g of grilled almonds. Cut each almond in half and place them on top of each piece.
Place the tray in the preheated oven at 350 f. Cook for 45 minutes.
Remove the tray and sprinkle with a mixture of hot honey and orange blossom water.
Leave the tray for 24 hours so that the honey is well absorbed.
The next day, cut and put inboxes.

Name:
           almond  baklawa



Preparation time:
                                               30M

Cooking time:
                                               45M

Total time:
                                               1h15m

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