How to Make Baklava with date filling in 10 Minutes at Home

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

The ingredients needed to make Baklava with date filling:

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

Baklava is a delicious phyllo pastry popular in Middle Eastern countries. Its supposed origins are Turkish, dating to the Byzantine Empire (or even further), though many cultures claim it for their own. Baklava is a Mediterranean dessert with layers of phyllo dough, nuts and honey. Baklava is a dessert made with layers of thin phyllo dough brushed with butter and a flavorful nut mixture.

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

Baklava is an all-time favorite Greek pastry that comes in many different varieties. This recipe includes walnuts and almonds. 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. The filling is made up of sweet dates and mixed nuts.

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