Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, greek baklava. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Greek Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Greek Baklava is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Make ready packages phyllo dough
3. Make ready pecans milled or finely chopped
4. Take and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
5. Make ready melted unsalted butter, clarified
6. Make ready whole cloves
7. Take Pastry brush
8. Make ready 9x13 pan
9. Get For the syrup
10. Take water
11. Prepare sugar
12. Prepare honey (I use wildflower honey)
13. Make ready lemon cut in half, only use half
14. Make ready 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. Baklava is the quintessential Greek dessert. Who can resist the layers of delicate, buttered phyllo dough filled with cinnamon and walnuts?

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 !! 😋❤️😋

Baklava is the quintessential Greek dessert. Who can resist the layers of delicate, buttered phyllo dough filled with cinnamon and walnuts? Its richness is further enhanced and sweetened with the drizzle of honey, cinnamon, and citrus-flavored syrup. Baklava is served at most Greek weddings and holidays. Chop the nuts into small pieces using a food processor, taking care not to blitz them to a paste.

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