🇹🇷 Türkiye cuisine · #16

Gaziantep Baklava

Gaziantep Baklava
Time120 min
Serves40
Ingredients4

Gaziantep's famous baklava: forty paper-thin layers with clarified butter and green pistachios, soaked in syrup — a protected EU geographical indication.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Butter a tray and layer half the filo, brushing every sheet.
  2. Spread the pistachios evenly.
  3. Cover with the remaining filo and butter.
  4. Cut into squares or diamonds and pour over hot butter.
  5. Bake at 170°C for an hour and soak with cold syrup.