Monday, August 4, 2014

Order Your Favorite 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.

Filo is complicated to make, but if you can buy it, you can make your own baklava. The recipe is simple. You need to place one layer of filo in a tray, smear a little bit of melted butter or some oil on it, then another layer of filo etc. After a few layers, add ground walnuts, and continue with few layers of filo and so on. When you use all the ingredients, finish the procedure adding more melted butter on top.

You need to cut the cake into cubes or some other shapes before placing it in the oven. The oven needs to be preheated on 180 degrees of Celsius. Baked cake should be soaked in syrup. You can make this syrup using only sugar and water, or add some honey, cinnamon, lemon or orange in it, according to your taste. It is possible to use any other type of nuts instead of walnuts.

You can experiment with different ingredients and spices, but the basic principle stays the same. For example, you can use chocolate syrup instead of traditional syrup; add orange zest or any other combination. But first you need to try the original baklava. Although the recipe is basically simple, experienced professionals can really achieve extraordinary results.

One of many popular versions of this traditional dessert is called Burma baklava. This twisted dessert has the same ingredients, but is prepared on slightly different manner. Some versions are prepared using walnuts and honey, other contain chocolate and chopped nuts. The pastry can be slightly thicker, but is equally delicious.

These sweets should be served at room temperature. This dessert is extremely sweet, but incredibly tasty. You'll find numerous variations today, but traditional version is still the most popular one. In some regions original recipe contains rose water, lemon or orange blossom water, but the basic principle is always the same, thin pastry and extreme sweetness.

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.

Once you try some Turkish delicacies, you will crave for more. Don't forget to taste Burma baklava, it will positively surprise you, especially popular chocolate version. Juicy, excitingly sweet and aromatic, these desserts are full of calories, and you shouldn't eat them regularly. Even so, for some special occasions, you deserve to treat your palate with something special.




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