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Tuesday 5 August 2014

Is It Safe To Order Baklava Online

By Annabelle Holman


Baklava is Turkish and Arabic favorite dessert. It is made of numerous layers of extremely thin pastry called filo, separated by a thin film of oil or melted butter and filled with walnuts. Everything is soaked in sugar syrup, with or without adding honey in it. This ancient dessert is very sweet and highly caloric, but very popular all over the world. It can be bought in specialized pastry shops, but now you can also order baklava online.

Baklava is pretty simple dessert to make, if you buy some filo. Making filo, this thin sheets of pastry is more complicated, and requires certain skills. So, you need to follow this recipe. A fey layers of filo, separated with melted butter or oil, one layer of ground walnuts, a few layers of filo and so on. Add a few layers of filo on the top, and pour the melted butter over it.

Before placing your cake in the oven, you need to cut it in pieces. Traditionally, this cake is cut in diamond shapes, but you may cut it in cubes as well. Bake on 180 degrees, and once it is done, pour a sugar syrup on it and leave it rest for a while. You can add cinnamon in walnuts, use hazelnuts, macadamia nuts or almonds instead or add honey or lemon in your syrup.

The basic principle is to use thin filo separated with melted butter or oil, with some sort of nuts in between. Different spices may be used, together with orange zest, lemon zest or lemon juice, honey or some other ingredients. Still, most people prefer original recipe, baklava made by professional, highly experienced pastry experts. You should try it and see the difference.

Burma baklava is another very similar traditional dessert, with same ingredients but different method of preparation. There are numerous recipes for this particular dessert as well, and some include chocolate cover, chopped walnuts, rose water, honey and different spices. Choose your favorite ones and serve them on room temperature, with a cup of coffee.

Serving at room temperature is important because these desserts need to have certain consistency. They need to be juicy and soak in sweet syrup. Of course, it is nice when they soak in chocolate syrup as well. Original recipe is different is different regions of Turkey, but they have one thing in common, they all contain generous amounts of sugar and taste great.

If you would like to taste this special delicacy, and you don't have original Turkish pastry shop anywhere near you, order your treats online. They usually start preparing it as soon as they receive your order. This way you will get perfectly fresh and tasty dessert on your door. The same pastry is used for preparing many other eastern sweet delicacies.

If you have never tasted Turkish sweet delicacies, now is the perfect time for this. Incredibly sweet and juicy, tempting and aromatic, they really are something you need to try. Make sure not to include these tempting caloric bombs in your regular diet regime, but treat yourself with something extraordinary at least sometimes. You will find out why this dessert is so popular for such a long time.




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