Famous Lebanese Sweets That Have Taken the World by Storm

January 11, 2018

Pastries are supposed to be really tempting and delicious. That’s primarily because the Lebanese pastry chefs are supposed to be the best in the industry. They are highly talented and highly-skilled and well-trained chefs who thrive in manufacturing truly gratifying sweets. People could be pretty demanding and very difficult to please. To please the palates of different people, the qualified chefs need to achieve excellence. So they have conjured up innovative sweet ideas and have presented a host of mind-blowing sweets unparalleled in terms of taste, quality, and wow factor. You could enjoy the best Lebanese sweet called the Baklava that is readily available in Melbourne. Let us explore the amazing world of Lebanese sweets.

What Is Baklava?

Baklava is one of the most popular and famous Lebanese pastries. This pastry has a debatable origin with several nations claiming to have come up with the original recipe. You would find this kind of pastry in all the well-known cuisines right from the Greek, Persian, and the Byzantine. Most of the cuisines offer the same kind of a delicious pastry with slight variations in the recipes along with chiefly the Arabs and the Turks.

How Does Baklava Look or Taste?

Baklavas are sweet, flaky, and incredibly delicious and there are dozens of different kinds of Baklava. However, each one of them comes in multiple layers of ultra-thin pastries. In between the pastry layers, an exotic and delicious filling is stuffed. The filling is a magical combination of finely chopped almonds, pine nuts, and walnuts. Once the stuffing is complete the entire pastry is generously drizzled with honey, or rosewater or orange flower water depending on different flavours. Come enjoy relishing the best baklava in the best patisserie located in Melbourne.

What Are Baklavas Made of?

Baklavas are made of milk, butter, and wheat flour. Sugar is then added to the stuffing of finely chopped nuts and pistachios. This is a complicated recipe. The dough is rolled out into super thin layers of pastry and each layer is properly brushed with oil or water and then placed strategically one on top of another to avoid the sticking together of the layers. Baklavas come in various shapes including rectangles, triangles, diamonds, and lozenges but irrespective of the shapes and sizes, all Baklavas are super-delicious.

What Is Halewat El-Jeben or The Sweet Cheese?

Halewat El-Jeben is a cheese dish soaked in syrup and encased with a kataifi pastry. A more contemporary twist to the dish used in some Lebanese restaurants uses a corn flakes-semolina mix instead, which works just as well. The crust is then topped with ground pistachios and rose petals, and is thin enough to just contain the molten cheese inside.

Halewat El-Jeben literally translates to “a sweet of cheese”, and is one of the most loved cheesy desserts in the world.  Sugar, semolina, and cheese are used to make the dough, which is then wrapped around Ashta Cream and topped with various nuts like pistachios and Aleppo nuts, and sometimes with jam too. It is sinful, creamy, and an absolute delight.

What Is Awamat?

If you have a fascination for doughnuts, you would surely love the Awamats as these sweets are actually tiny dough balls that are deep-fried until golden and crispy. Then these amazing fried balls are nicely coated with unique sweet syrup. These simple but delicious sweets are served during grand celebrations like birthdays or weddings.

Try out the best baklava in Melbourne by visiting the most reputed patisserie.

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