baking and pastry recipes

Baghlava

Not to be confused with Balaclava. It was one of the most baghlava sweet pastries of Ottoman cuisine. The name baklava is used in many languages with minor phonetic and spelling variations. There are also claims attributing baklava to the Assyrians, according to which baklava was already prepared by them in the 8th century BC.

Turkish cuisine and considered by some as the origin of baklava. It consists of layers of filo dough that are put one by one in warmed up milk with sugar. It is served with walnut and fresh pomegranate and generally eaten during Ramadan. Hu Sihui, an ethnic Mongol court dietitian of the Yuan dynasty. The Greeks and the Turks still argue over which dishes were originally Greek and which Turkish. Baklava, for example, is claimed by both countries.