noun
- a sweet pastry made of layers of thin dough filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey
Usage: Middle Eastern cuisine
Examples
- The Greek restaurant served delicious baklava for dessert.
- She learned to make baklava from her grandmother’s recipe.
- The baklava was dripping with honey and filled with pistachios.
- We bought a box of baklava from the Mediterranean bakery.
- The layers of phyllo dough in the baklava were paper-thin.
- He couldn’t resist ordering baklava after his meal.