Tuesday, July 29, 2014

How 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.

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.

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.

Extremely tempting version of baklava is made using rich, sweet chocolate syrup instead of regular one. Generous amount of cinnamon tastes great with both walnuts and hazelnuts, especially with a little bit of orange juice added in sugar syrup. Regardless these amazingly versatile combinations, the original recipe is still the most popular one, and you should definitely try it.

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.

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.

In specialized Turkish shops it's possible to buy these sweet desserts, or even traditionally prepared filo. Unfortunately, in some areas it is hard to find these types of shops. The only way of buying these delicacies is to order them online. Most people hesitate ordering food online, but there is nothing to worry about. They will start preparing your food after you place your order.

Make sure to try Burma baklava. They don't require so perfectly thin filo, but they are really tasty. Try some other Turkish delicacies. Whether you prefer hazelnuts and honey, or walnuts and cinnamon with orange zest, you will be pleasantly surprised with this exciting taste. When they are soaked in chocolate syrup, they are even more tempting, and once you try them, you will understand why these delicacies are so popular.




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