Baklava is a kind of baked and branded pasta, is unique to China, a kind of cake, but also common in all parts of China's traditional snacks, originated in the Han Dynasty, has a long history, the main raw materials for the flour, duck oil, sesame seeds, green onion oil, salt, soy sauce. Fermented dough kneaded into the shortening rolled into a cake sprinkled with sesame seeds, shaped into the oven and baked into (the oven used for the openings facing up to the large mud roasted biscuit stove), which can also be wrapped into the salty or sweet fillings. There are many varieties of sesame baklava, crispy baklava, lasagna baklava, sugar and sesame sauce baklava, oven dry baklava, cylinder oven baklava, and so on nearly a hundred varieties.
Below is an introduction to our most common practice of shortcrust pastry.
1. The flour should be fine powder, use warm water to mix the flour, and the flour should be soft. You can take a pair of chopsticks to stir the dry flour while stirring slowly add water (so that and into the noodle can be more fluffy), when the stirring is not dry noodle and then kneaded into a soft dough with your hands, the noodle and put in a warm place to wake up for 10 minutes.
2. Knead the dough into a rectangular strip, not too thin, about one centimeter thick.
3. Spread the vegetable oil evenly on the kneaded dough, roll the dough from one end, and pull it out when you get three layers.
4. At this point you can see the shiny vegetable oil in the middle of the dough, then use the palm of your hand to flatten the dough and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
5. Put it into the oven and bake it.
Additionally, the recipe is more or less the same for sesame sauce baklava, sugar baklava, and so on, but with different condiments, such as sugar, sauce, eggs, and so on.