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Balkan Baklava, Bulgaria
Country of Origin: Bulgaria
Yield: 4 servings Prep time: 30 minutes Total time: 1.5 hours
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Ingredients
For filling: 4 Eggs 1 c Sugar 1 c Flour 1 tsp Baking powder 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract 300 g Crushed walnuts
Additional ingredients: Some Butter Some Oil 2 c H2O 2 c Sugar Sliced Lemon 1 pkg. Phyllo dough
Directions
1. Mix eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder and vanilla into a cake batter. Leave to the side. 2. Melt butter with oil and grease a baking tray. 3. Using half of the phyllo dough, stack layers of phyllo sprinkling the melted fat between each layer. 4. Mix the cake batter with the crushed walnuts and pour over phyllo dough. 5. Stack the remaining phyllo dough on the cake batter, sprinkling the melted fat between each layer. 6. Cut diamonds into pie and bake at 350⁰F for until golden. 7. Remove and let rest for 24 hrs. 8. Heat H2O, sugar, lemon and vanilla until sugar is melted and slightly thick. 9. Pour syrup over pie and let rest for 24 hrs.
Did you know…
Walnuts have been shown to slow the mental decline in highrisk subgroups. The full potential of walnuts is not fully understood.
(Sala-Vila et al, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
1983
Rickoid "I learned the recipe for the baklava dessert from a Bulgarian teacher who knows it from her greatgrandmother from the Macedonian region as "Armenian baklava". My friends told me they knew it as "Greek baklava," and it was probably "Turkish." I suggest it be included as "Balkan baklava" - I tried it for Christmas and it was highly appreciated by the family (although we did not wait for 48 hours after the baking)”
