Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, greek baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Greek Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Greek Baklava is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook greek baklava using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Baklava:
Take For the Baklava
Take 2 (16 oz) packages phyllo dough
Take 4 cups pecans milled or finely chopped
Take 1 and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Take 2 sticks melted unsalted butter, clarified
Prepare 1 bottle whole cloves
Get Pastry brush
Take 1 9x13 pan
Prepare For the syrup
Get 2 cups water
Take 1 cup sugar
Get 1 cup honey (I use wildflower honey)
Get 1 lemon cut in half, only use half
Take 1 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) π
It can be stored at room temperature for a week, longer in the fridge ENJOY !! πβ€οΈπ
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