Baklava with date filling
Baklava with date filling

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baklava with date filling. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

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

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