baklava( باقلوا)

/bah-klah-VAH/
[Turkish]

Baklava is a Middle Eastern pastry made of multiple, very thin layers of sweet phyllo-style pastry stuffed with chopped, grilled almonds, walnuts and pistachios, cooked with butter and oil and drenched with honey. It is usually cut into diamond-shaped lozenges The crisp yet moist finish is achieved by pouring hot honey onto cold pastry or cold honey onto hot pastry.


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