Armenian Baklava

Delicious, appetizing, original, from ordinary products! Armenian baklava is a rather complicated recipe to prepare, but the result will pay off all the work spent. This honey delicacy melting in the mouth will not leave anyone indifferent. Following exactly the recipe, you will learn the features and nuances of cooking.

Snezhana

The author of the recipe

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

For the dough:

Wheat flour

2.5

Butter

200

Sour cream

200

Chicken eggs

Baking powder

0.5

For filling:

Walnuts (cleared)

300

Sugar

Ground cinnamon

For creamy filling:

Butter

100

For honey pouring:

Honey

Sugar

Water

150

For greasing:

Egg yolks

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 8 % 6 g

Fats 38 % 27 g

Carbohydrates 54 % 38 g

411 kcal

GI: 5 / 0 / 95

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 45 min

Step 1:
How to make Armenian baklava? First of all, prepare the dough. How to make dough? In a deep bowl, put sour cream, softened butter, cut into pieces, then beat in chicken eggs. Choose sour cream and butter of good quality, they should be natural, without milk fat substitutes. Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria.
Step 2:
Mix everything until smooth with a whisk or mixer. Then pour the wheat flour sifted and combined with baking powder in parts. It is important to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baking will turn out to be airy and will rise well when baking.
Step 3:
Knead an elastic, smooth and obedient dough. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. In texture, it should turn out like sand, in quality — like puff.
Step 4:
Next, prepare the filling. How to make the filling? Wash the walnuts thoroughly and dry them in a dry frying pan. Leave some of the whole walnut halves for decoration, put the rest in a blender bowl and grind into fine crumbs. You can add peanuts and almonds to the filling, the taste will be more interesting. Add sugar and cinnamon to the nuts and turn on the blender for another minute. The filling is ready.
Step 5:
Prepare the filling. How to make a fill? Pour sugar into a suitable container, pour water. Put it on the fire to cook, constantly stir the mass in the process. When the sugar dissolves and the syrup begins to thicken, add honey. It is not necessary to cook the mixture with honey for a long time so that it does not lose its useful properties. Stir to make the mixture homogeneous and immediately turn off the heat. Melt the butter in any convenient way and cool it.
Step 6:
Take the dough out of the refrigerator, divide it into four parts.
Step 7:
Roll out each one into a thin rectangular layer. Put the first layer of dough in a greased form. Put one third of the filling on it. It is better to take a form with high sides.
Step 8:
Put the second layer of dough on top, put the filling on it again. And so repeat with all parts of the dough and filling. Don't put the filling on the top of the dough anymore. Cut the baklava billet into lozenges without affecting the lowest layer of dough.
Step 9:
Brush the dough with beaten egg yolk on top. Put half a walnut on each rhombus. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Put baklava in it for 15 minutes. Then take out the mold, but do not turn off the heating. Pour the baklava with melted butter. Once again go through the cuts with a knife.
Step 10:
Bake baklava for another 45 minutes. Pour the finished hot baklava with honey filling and leave it alone for half an hour so that it is well soaked. You can serve it to the table. Enjoy your meal!

Be prepared for the fact that flour may need more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!

Butter can be melted in the microwave or in a water bath. How to melt butter in the microwave? Cut the butter into small pieces and place it in a special container. To prevent the oil from splashing when heated, cover the oil vessel with a paper towel. The oil should be melted either at the lowest power or in defrosting mode. At first, five seconds will be enough. Next, if the butter has not melted yet, set it again for 5 seconds and start the microwave. Repeat the process several times until the desired result.
How to melt butter in a water bath? You will need two containers of different diameters. Pour water into a large one and put it on the stove. Place the smaller container on top so that it is submerged in water by about half. Put the sliced butter into it. Under the influence of boiling water, the oil will begin to melt. Stir the oil slightly to speed up the process. As soon as the pieces of oil are completely dissolved, remove the container from the stove.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !