Greek Baklava
Greek Baklava

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, greek baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Greek Baklava is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Greek Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Baklava uses phyllo dough stacked with honey and nuts to make a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone will love. Greek Baklava is a delicious traditional dessert made of layers of crispy golden brown phyllo, filled with chopped walnuts and garnished with honey syrup. Baklava is one of the most popular Greek dessert made of layers of crispy phyllo, stuffed with chopped nuts , drizzled with honey syrup.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook greek baklava using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Baklava:
  1. Make ready For the Baklava
  2. Prepare packages phyllo dough
  3. Prepare pecans milled or finely chopped
  4. Get and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  5. Prepare melted unsalted butter, clarified
  6. Make ready whole cloves
  7. Take Pastry brush
  8. Prepare 9x13 pan
  9. Make ready For the syrup
  10. Take water
  11. Make ready sugar
  12. Take honey (I use wildflower honey)
  13. Make ready lemon cut in half, only use half
  14. Take cinnamon stick

Baklava Recipe, Honey Baklava, How to Make Best Baklava. This honey baklava is flaky, crisp and tender and I love that it isn't overly. Baklava is a beautiful pastry with light, flaky layers of crust and a sweet filling, drenched in a light On the Greek island of Crete, an ancient recipe called gastrin is quite similar to the baklava of modern. Keep unused sheets covered with plastic wrap while assembling baklava to prevent drying.

Instructions to make Greek Baklava:
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Make the Baklava: Mix pecans with the ground cinnamon, melt the butter, clarify it and butter the pan
  4. 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
  5. Place about a 1/4 of the nut mixture on top of the 10 buttered sheets
  6. 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
  7. Butter the very top, even pour the rest of your butter and carefully cut baklava lengthwise 4 rows then cut diagonally for diamonds
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Let it sit for at least 8 hours to overnight to soak up all the sweet syrup (I know it's hard to resist) 😇
  11. It can be stored at room temperature for a week, longer in the fridge ENJOY !! 😋❤️😋

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