Baklava with chokeberry - Dragana Ilić

Baklava with chokeberry - what does chokeberry baklava hide? It hides a new dimension of taste. Hedonism, enjoyment!

Baklava with aronia, ingredients:

• rind with aronia 500 g
• ground walnuts 500 g (mix finely ground with chopped walnuts for a better taste)
• raisins 100 g
• oil as needed
• chokeberry spread 400 g

Syrup:

• 3 cups of 2 dl of sugar
• 5 glasses of 2 dl of water
• juice of 1 lemon
• 2 bags of vanilla sugar

Baklava with chokeberry, preparation:

• First make the syrup and cool it well.
• Wash the raisins well and let them soak in water.
• Arrange the crusts in a greased 40 x 25 cm baking dish.
• Brush the skins that are not filleted with oil.
• Fill every second crust, i.e. spread with two tablespoons of aronia spread and sprinkle with ground walnuts.
• Add raisins to every third crust with filling.
• Each time, after filling, press the crusts well with your fingers.
• Leave the last three crusts without filling, for finishing, as the top crust.
• Cut the baklava into cubes or rhombuses and brush with water before baking.
• Bake in a heated oven at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes, depending on the strength of the oven.
• Pour the cooled syrup over the hot baklava.
• Cover with aluminum foil and press with something so that the baklava absorbs the filling nicely.

Syrup:

• In a cooking vessel, mix water, sugar and vanilla sugar and cook for 15 minutes.
• At the end, add lemon juice.
• Cool well before pouring hot baklava.

Note: aronia crusts and aronia spread products Hoff.rs.

Dragana Ilić

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