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Puff Pastry Baklava | Puff Pastry Dessert

Puff pastry baklava, a delightful dessert with puff pastry sheets,layered with nuts, baked to perfection and drizzled with sugar syrup.
Course Dessert, Festive
Cuisine International, Middle-eastern
Keyword Dessert recipe, Party dessert, Puff pastry dessert, Puff pastry recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 5
Calories

Equipment

  • Convection oven

Ingredients

  • 2 nos puff pastry sheets Not squares, the sheets like A3 size paper
  • 4 tablespoon chopped almonds
  • 4 tablespoon chopped cashewnuts
  • 4 tbsp chopped pistachios
  • 3 pods cardamom seeds alone, crushed
  • 2 tablespoon milk to brush on top

Sugar Syrup

  • ½ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup water
  • 4-5 nos cardamon pods crushed
  • 2 nos cloves crushed
  • juice of ½ an orange

Instructions

  • Take all the nuts, along with cardamom and cloves in a mixer and pulse it to get a coarse powder.Remove the puff pastry sheets, and let it thaw for  30 minutes on the kitchen counter.
  • Dust your work surface well with flour. Roll puff pastry sheets a bit, and use a plate (8 inches diameter) to cut out 2 round shapes.
  • Place one round-cut  pastry sheet on a well greased baking pan, brush the sheet with butter and  spread nuts powder generously on it. Now place the other sheet on top of the nuts and close. 
  • Now comes the fun part of cut and braid. Place a small dessert bowl(roughly 1.5 inches in diameter), in the center and cut thesheet into quarters from the bowl. Now cut each quarter into 3 parts
  • Starting from any point, twist two strings in the opposite direction to form a ripple and press the edges together to seal like a petal.
  • Preheat the oven to 220C. Brush the top of the bread with some milk and sprinkle some nuts powder on top. Bake it for about 20-22 minutes until the top turns golden brown. 
  • While the bread is baking , make the sugar syrup. Take everything, except orange juice, in a sauce pan, let it boil until sugar dissolves completely, Take it off the stove. Add orange juice and let it cool.
  • Remove the star. Let it cool for 10-15 minutes. Pour the sugar syrup on top and serve it warm. Just see them dissappear, my people even drank the sugar syrup, like coffee!!!