Recipe of Speedy Greek Baklava

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, greek baklava. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Spedizione gratis (vedi condizioni) CUT the baklava after assembly and before cooking, and top with butter to make everything smooth and "pretty". Put the cooled sauce on as soon as you pull the baklava out of the oven. It tastes like the baklava I buy in the Greek stores downtown and a LOT cheaper per piece. Keep unused sheets covered with plastic wrap while assembling baklava to prevent drying.

Greek Baklava is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Greek Baklava is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Greek Baklava:

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

Serve the baklava with Greek yogurt, the baked grapes and a drizzle of honey and crushed walnuts. Cut the Baklava into triangle servings. Remove the Baklava from the oven. Classic baklava recipe, the traditional Greek pastry made with ground nuts, layers of phyllo and drizzled with honey syrup.

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 !! 😋❤️😋

Remove the Baklava from the oven. Classic baklava recipe, the traditional Greek pastry made with ground nuts, layers of phyllo and drizzled with honey syrup. I've had baklava now and then over the years, sometimes good, sometimes not so much. In other words, not a huge fan, just kind of neutral. But if you've ever had really good baklava, it's a game changer.

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