Gourmet Turkish Desserts – Poppy Seed Baklava Recipe

Gourmet Turkish desserts recipe ingredients:

• 500 grams thin layers of dough (you’ll get about 16 layers)
• cooking oil

Poppy seed filling ingredients:

• 250 grams poppy seeds, grind
• 150-200 grams nuts, grind
• 100 grams raisins (soak them in rum or hot water for a half hour)
• 10 grams baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 liter buttermilk

Sugar syrup ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 cups water
• 10 grams vanilla sugar
• 1 lemon, sliced

Sugar syrup recipe: Pour sugar and vanilla in water to boil (to melt sugar) and remove it from the heat. Put slices of lemon in hot syrup and let it cool like this. Remove lemon before you pour it over baklava.

Poppy seed filling recipe: Mix poppy seeds, nuts, raisins
(soaked and then strained) and baking powder. Beat eggs, add them in the poppy seed mix and stir it. Pour buttermilk in mixture and mix all together.

Poppy seed baklava recipe: grease the pan and put ingredients in this order:

1. 1 thin layer of dough
2. grease it with one tablespoon of oil
3. put 1 thin layer of dough over that
4. spread about 3 tablespoons of poppy filling
5. repeat first 4 steps, till you left last 2 dough layers
6. repeat first 3 steps and grease the last dough layer
7. cut the baklava into pieces

Bake it in the preheat oven to 350°F (180°C) for about 25 minutes.

Pour sugar syrup over poppy baklava and return it in turned off oven for 5 minutes more, to absorb the syrup. Serve it cold.