Baklava with Powdered Sugar

Baking and Desserts | Azerbaijani cuisine

⏳ Time

45 minutes + 2 hours

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Baklava with powdered sugar

Ingredients

Wheat Flour - 4 glasses
Milk - 1 tablespoon
Chicken Egg - 4 pieces
Salt - to taste
Ghee - 5.3 oz
Dry yeast - 0.7 oz
Nuts - 3 glasses
Powdered Sugar - 2 glasses
Vanillin - a pinch
Saffron - 0 oz

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Heat the milk. Dissolve the yeast, then add 2 eggs, half of the melted butter, salt, and saffron. Mix everything well, then add flour and knead the dough. Let it rest for about 1 to 1.5 hours. After that, divide the dough into 12 pieces, with 2 of them being larger than the others.

Step 2

Pass the nuts through a meat grinder and mix them with a cup of powdered sugar, vanilla, and saffron.

Step 3

Roll out one of the large pieces of dough to a thickness of half a millimeter, place it in a deep skillet, and brush it with oil. Roll out another piece of dough, place it on top of the previous layer, brush it with oil, add the filling in a thickness of 3–4 millimeters, and continue layering until the top. The final layer will be the second large piece of dough.

Step 4

Then cut the baklava into diamond shapes measuring 10x4 centimeters, brush with egg yolk, and place a hazelnut or almond in the center of each diamond. Bake for 40–45 minutes at 180–392°F. Meanwhile, prepare a syrup by mixing one cup of powdered sugar with one cup of hot water. Pour the hot syrup over the baked baklava and return it to the oven for another 7 minutes.