Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, greek baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Greek Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Greek Baklava is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular 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:
- Prepare For the Baklava
- Make ready packages phyllo dough
- Take pecans milled or finely chopped
- Make ready and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready melted unsalted butter, clarified
- Take whole cloves
- Make ready Pastry brush
- Take 9x13 pan
- Prepare For the syrup
- Prepare water
- Get sugar
- Get honey (I use wildflower honey)
- Prepare lemon cut in half, only use half
- Prepare cinnamon stick
The classic Greek baklava recipe consists of three main ingredients; filo dough, walnuts and honey syrup. Pistachios or walnuts are the most commonly used nuts. Chop the nuts into small pieces using a food processor, taking care not to blitz them to a paste. Put them into a bowl, stir in the honey and a pinch of salt and set aside.
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 !! 😋❤️😋
Chop the nuts into small pieces using a food processor, taking care not to blitz them to a paste. Put them into a bowl, stir in the honey and a pinch of salt and set aside. Traditionally it is scented with cinnamon and cloves, although orange zest may also be used as well. After it gets SLOWLY baked, a hot syrup made with honey is sprinkled on top. Greek baklava rolls (saragli) made to perfection!
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