Vanadzor N16 primary school ARMENIA Armenian kitchen Manush Arzumanyan

1. Armenian Pakhlava
Vanadzor N16 primary school
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2. What Is Pakhlava?
Pakhlava is a sweet layered pastry with chopped walnuts, syrup or honey. I
know it as an Armenian dessert, but pakhlava is not only Armenian it is very
popular in many countries including Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan and even Greece.
According to the legend, pakhlava
first appeared in Ottoman
Empire, the first mention is from
15 century in a cookbook of
Ottoman sultans. According to
the book, the cook of sultan
prepared this dessert and he liked
it so much, that he ordered to
save the pakhlava recipe. There
are several variants of pakhlava
recipe depending on the
country, and I will post the
Armenian variant of this dessert.

3. Cook Time
Prep time: 1 hour
Cook time: 30 min
Ready in: 1 hour 30
min
Yields: 40 servings
(baklava pieces)
Ingredients
4 cups of flour
0.7 lbs (300g) of butter
4 eggs
0.7 lbs (300g) of sour
cream
2 cups of sugar
0.7 lbs (300g) of walnuts
1 teaspoon of baking soda
3-4 tablespoons of natural
honey

4. How To Make Pakhlava
1. Add flour in a bowl, make a small hole in flour with a knife, and
put sliced butter into the hole.
2. Mix everything with a knife until the flour crumbs.

5. 3. Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda to sour cream. Separate egg whites
from yolks. Make a hole in flour once again and add 3 egg yolks
(don't add whites, you'll need them in a little while), sour cream
and water.

6. 4. Mix everything and knead the dough. The dough should be stiff and
soft at the same time. Divide it into 3 parts (one of them a little bit
bigger than the rest), and put them into the fridge for 0.5-1 h.

7. 5. While dough is preparing, make the filling. Chop walnuts with a knife
(you can use blender or grinder, but I don't recommend it, as the
taste
will be slightly different).
6. Mix chopped walnuts with sugar; whip the egg whites (4 eggs)
lightly(!)

8. 7. When the dough is ready, take it out, roll each piece of the dough making it
approximately 0.2" (0.5cm) thick.
8. Put the dough layer into the baking pan and brush it with the lightly whipped
egg whites, add half of the filling (put it evenly on the whole layer)
9. Put another layer on top of it and repeat (brush with egg whites and put the
rest of the filling evenly).

9. 10. Now roll the biggest piece of the dough, put it on top and wrap all
the edges down.
11. Brush pakhlava with yolk and cut it into pieces (don't cut all the
way,
just the top layer).

10. You can decorate each piece with walnut halves
12. Put pakhlava into
the COLD OVEN.
Heat the oven with
pakhlava inside
to 400-430F (200-
220C). Once it's
heated, bake for 30
min or until
golden crust.

11. 13. Take pakhlava off and brush it with honey (especially the cuts and
the walnuts).

12. 14. Put it again into the oven for 5 min.

13. 15. Cool it, cut to pieces and enjoy!

14. Vanadzor N16 primary school
ARMENIA
Made by Manush Arzumanyan