Recipe of Perfect Greek Baklava
Greek Baklava Recipe
Hello, I'm Linda. Today, we're going to prepare greek baklava recipe. Never skip today's recipe. This is a simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. This time, I'm gonna make it a little bit more unique. This will be really delicious. Not to mention, it's super satisfying.
Greek Baklava Recipe
Greek Baklava is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Greek Baklava is something which I've loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Greek Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It's enjoyed by millions every day. Greek Baklava is something which I have loved my entire life. They're fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook greek baklava using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Baklava:
- Get of For the Baklava.
- Get 2 (16 oz) of packages phyllo dough.
- Prepare 4 cups of pecans milled or finely chopped.
- Prepare 1 of and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon.
- Take 2 sticks of melted unsalted butter, clarified.
- Get 1 bottle of whole cloves.
- Make ready of Pastry brush.
- Make ready 1 of 9x13 pan.
- Get of For the syrup.
- Get 2 cups of water.
- Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
- Get 1 cup of honey (I use wildflower honey).
- Make ready 1 of lemon cut in half, only use half.
- Prepare 1 of cinnamon stick.
Instructions to make Greek Baklava:
- Make the syrup: Take a saucepan and add the water, sugar, honey and cinnamon stick. Squeeze the juice from the lemon half and drop the whole lemon half in the pan.
- Bring to a boil and stir until sugar and honey dissolves then down to medium heat for about 5 minutes, take off heat and cool to room temperature then take out the lemon half and cinnamon stick.
- Make the Baklava: Mix pecans with the ground cinnamon, melt the butter, clarify it and butter the pan.
- Place one sheet in the pan and brush butter all over it, repeat until you do 10 sheets on top of one another layering each with butter.
- Place about a 1/4 of the nut mixture on top of the 10 buttered sheets.
- It goes like this: 10 buttered sheets 1/4 nut mixture. 5 buttered sheets. 1/4 nut mixture. 5 buttered sheets 1/4 nut mixture. 5 buttered sheets. 1/4 nut mixture. 15 buttered sheets on top.
- Butter the very top, even pour the rest of your butter and carefully cut baklava lengthwise 4 rows then cut diagonally for diamonds.
- Place a whole clove in each diamond shape and bake at 300 degrees for one and a half hours depending on your oven. Make sure it is golden and flaky on top.
- When baklava is done take out the oven and spoon or ladle the cool syrup all over the baklava concentrating in the cuts. Remember cool syrup, hot baklava.
- Let it sit for at least 8 hours to overnight to soak up all the sweet syrup (I know it's hard to resist) 😇.
- It can be stored at room temperature for a week, longer in the fridge ENJOY !! 😋❤️😋.
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