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In this easy to follow vid you'll learn how to make baklava from start to finish. This is an easy Greek baklava recipe with only a few simple steps that. This Greek Baklava recipe has walnuts and cinnamon layered between flaky phyllo dough with a Greek Baklava Recipe. This post may contain affiliate links which won't change your price but will.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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:

1. Take For the Baklava
2. Make ready 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. Make ready 1 bottle whole cloves
7. Get Pastry brush
8. Get 1 9x13 pan
9. Make ready For the syrup
10. Get 2 cups water
11. Get 1 cup sugar
12. Get 1 cup honey (I use wildflower honey)
13. Make ready 1 lemon cut in half, only use half
14. Get 1 cinnamon stick

Traditional Greek baklava by Greek Akis Petretzikis. A buttery, sweet pastry with nuts and syrup between layers and super crunchy phyllo! This Greek baklava, a Middle-Eastern dessert, is made from layers of phyllo or filo pastry which is filled with chopped walnuts, cinnamon, sugar, and butter and soaked in a honey syrup. Keep unused sheets covered with plastic wrap while assembling baklava to prevent drying.

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 Greek baklava, a Middle-Eastern dessert, is made from layers of phyllo or filo pastry which is filled with chopped walnuts, cinnamon, sugar, and butter and soaked in a honey syrup. 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. Learn how to make baklava with this Greek baklava recipe.

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