Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, greek baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Save Time and Do Groceries Online Now. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! This traditional Greek baklava has layers of tender filo pastry with a walnut filling and is coated in a spiced syrup. This delicious recipe was passed from my Yia Yia to her daughter-in-law (my mother) to me.

Greek Baklava is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Greek Baklava is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have greek baklava using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Baklava:

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

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 !! 😋❤️😋

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. Baklava is a crispy pastry dessert, made out of layers of Phyllo sheets, and a nut mix filling (usually almonds and walnuts). 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.

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