How to Prepare Greek Baklava in 30 Minutes for Young Wife

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Greek Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Greek Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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

This honey baklava is flaky, crisp and tender and I love that it isn't overly. 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. Keep unused sheets covered with plastic wrap while assembling baklava to prevent drying. The iconic Baklava is astonishingly straight forward to make!

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