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Step-by-Step Guide to Make Perfect Greek Baklava

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Greek Baklava

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, greek baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Greek Baklava is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Greek Baklava is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Greek Baklava:
  1. Make ready For the Baklava
  2. Take 2 (16 oz) packages phyllo dough
  3. Prepare 4 cups pecans milled or finely chopped
  4. Take 1 and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  5. Prepare 2 sticks melted unsalted butter, clarified
  6. Take 1 bottle whole cloves
  7. Get Pastry brush
  8. Get 1 9x13 pan
  9. Take For the syrup
  10. Prepare 2 cups water
  11. Get 1 cup sugar
  12. Prepare 1 cup honey (I use wildflower honey)
  13. Prepare 1 lemon cut in half, only use half
  14. Get 1 cinnamon stick

Baklava, the teeth-itchingly sweet delicacy of the eastern Mediterranean, can be made with pistachios or almonds, but in Greece it is commonly filled with walnuts. For many things we should now be thankful for. Mix all the filling ingredients in a bowl. Liberally butter the base and sides of an elongated or round baking dish.

Steps 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 !! 😋❤️😋

Mix all the filling ingredients in a bowl. Liberally butter the base and sides of an elongated or round baking dish. Brush each layer of fyllo with melted butter and. Greek baklava rolls (saragli) made to perfection! An amazing combination of crispy golden phyllo wrapped around flavourful nutty filling, bathed in syrup with the aromas of lemon cinnamon and clove.

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