Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, greek baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Greek Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Greek Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have greek baklava using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Baklava:
Get For the Baklava
Prepare packages phyllo dough
Prepare pecans milled or finely chopped
Get and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Make ready melted unsalted butter, clarified
Take whole cloves
Prepare Pastry brush
Take 9x13 pan
Make ready For the syrup
Make ready water
Get sugar
Prepare honey (I use wildflower honey)
Take lemon cut in half, only use half
Get cinnamon stick
Steps 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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