Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, greek baklava. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Greek Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Greek Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Baklava uses phyllo dough stacked with honey and nuts to make a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone will love. Traditional greek baklava - greek origin - stavros' kitchen - greek and cypriot cuisine. This Greek Baklava recipe has walnuts and cinnamon layered between flaky phyllo dough with a Greek Baklava Recipe.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have greek baklava using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Baklava:
- Get For the Baklava
- Get packages phyllo dough
- Make ready pecans milled or finely chopped
- Prepare and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get melted unsalted butter, clarified
- Get whole cloves
- Prepare Pastry brush
- Take 9x13 pan
- Get For the syrup
- Make ready water
- Take sugar
- Make ready honey (I use wildflower honey)
- Take lemon cut in half, only use half
- Get cinnamon stick
Way back when, when I was still living in Michigan, we had Greek neighbors in the house next door. Keep unused sheets covered with plastic wrap while assembling baklava to prevent drying. Authentic Greek Food Recipes, Greek Desserts Recipes. Baklava is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup.
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 !! 😋❤️😋
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