Easy Rolled Baklava Dessert

Ingredients

Dough

  • 1 egg
  • 1 tea glass vegetable oil
  • 1 tea glass yogurt
  • 1 tea glass milk
  • half tea glass water
  • 1 packet baking powder
  • 2 tablespoons vinegar
  • 4.5 to 5 water glasses flour

Rolling

  • 2 water glasses starch

Filling

  • 2 water glasses walnuts or hazelnuts

Topping

  • 300 grams butter
  • 1 tea glass vegetable oil

Syrup

  • 4 water glasses sugar
  • 4 water glasses water
  • thin slice lemon

Preparation

  1. First, knead the dough to a soft consistency and divide it into 60 pieces

  2. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes

  3. Roll out all dough pieces to the size of a small plate using a rolling pin and starch, then stack them

  4. Take 10 dough pieces, apply starch between them, stack and roll out as much as possible, cut to tray size and place in the tray, using cut edges to line the tray

  5. Repeat the process with another set of 10 dough pieces

  6. After placing the first 20 layers, pour half of the walnuts

  7. Place another 20 layers and pour the remaining walnuts

  8. Place the remaining 20 layers in sets of 10

  9. When butter starts to boil, skim the foam, add vegetable oil, and pour over the baklava when lukewarm

  10. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C with top-bottom heat for about 1 hour

  11. Reduce oven temperature to 160°C and bake for another 45 minutes, for a total of about 1 hour and 45 minutes, but adjust based on your oven

  12. For the syrup, put it on the stove and when it boils, reduce heat to medium and boil for 20 more minutes, then turn off

  13. Pour the syrup over the baklava when the baklava is cold and the syrup is lukewarm, or if the syrup is cold, wait 15 minutes after removing the baklava from the oven

Tips

  1. Flour amount may vary depending on flour quality and egg size, add gradually

  2. Starch can be wheat or corn, it does not matter

  3. Water glass measurement is 220ml and tea glass measurement is 125ml

  4. This recipe is suitable for trays between 39 and 45 centimeters

  5. Baking time may vary by oven, so check for doneness

  6. The cutting method can be adjusted as desired

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