baklava

     

Baklava or baklawa is a rich, sweet pastry feature in many cuisines of the former Ottoman countries. It is a pastry made of layers of phyllo dough filled with chopped walnuts or pistachios and sweetened with syrup or honey.

Trivia about baklava

  • This Middle Eastern sweet consists of several layers of very thin filo pastry filled with nuts & drenched with honey
  • This Turkish pastry has paper-thin dough & chopped nuts & is served with a cold honey syrup
  • After baking, syrup is poured over this multilayered paper-thin Turkish & Greek pastry
  • A dish called placenta resembled a cheese version of this gooey Greek pastry
  • "Joy Of Cooking" calls it "the best known of all phyllo pastries"