baklavas
Honeyed layered pastries
Baklavas is the plural of baklava, a rich Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dessert made of layers of thin phyllo pastry filled with chopped nuts and soaked in honey or syrup.
The layers are cut into diamonds or rectangles before baking: The baklavas glistened with honey.
Ultra-thin pastry dough
- filoTissue-thin pastry dough
- layersStacked levels or coatings
- flakyCrumbly or unreliable
- crispyBrittle and snapping
sheets · dough · buttery · golden · crunchy · delicate · thin · laminated
Thick sugar liquid
- honeyBees' viscous nectar product
- soakedThoroughly wet throughout
- stickyApt to adhere
- drippingRendered cooking fat
saturated · glistening · sugary · rosewater · orange blossom · lemon · clove · cinnamon
Of Anatolia's republic
- GreekOf Athenian origin
- LebaneseFrom a small Mediterranean nation
- PersianOf or from Iran
- ArabicSemitic language family member
Armenian · Levantine · Mediterranean · Middle Eastern · Ottoman · Ramadan · Eid · festive
phyllo
Ultra-thin pastry dough
crispy · sheets · dough · buttery · golden · crunchy · delicate · thin · laminated · tender
syrup
Thick sugar liquid
dripping · saturated · glistening · sugary · rosewater · orange blossom · lemon · clove · cinnamon · cardamom
Turkish
Of Anatolia's republic
Arabic · Armenian · Levantine · Mediterranean · Middle Eastern · Ottoman · Ramadan · Eid · festive · celebratory
pistachios
Edible green tree nuts
cashews · chopped · ground · crushed · nutty · rich · dense · layered · studded · mixed
platter
Large flat serving dish
square · portions · pieces · slices · petit four · dessert · assortment · box · gift · tea
baklavashardtack
Imperishable unleavened wafer
crackers · matzo · water crackers · rusks · breadsticks
baklavasplain bread
Untoasted, unspread loaf
rice cakes · gruel · hardtack · saltines · crackers
baklavasshortbread
Buttery, crumbly biscuit
scones · digestive biscuits · lefse · mochi · fortune cookies