Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a Authentic dish, greek baklava. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Greek Baklava is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Greek Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life.

Baklava uses phyllo dough stacked with honey and nuts to make a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone will love. Greek Baklava is a delicious traditional dessert made of layers of crispy golden brown phyllo, filled with chopped walnuts and garnished with honey syrup. Baklava is one of the most popular Greek dessert made of layers of crispy phyllo, stuffed with chopped nuts , drizzled with honey syrup.

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 cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Baklava:

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

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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 !! 😋❤️😋

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