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Greek Baklava
Greek Baklava

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The ingredients needed to prepare Greek Baklava:
  1. Provide For the Baklava
  2. Provide 2 (16 oz) packages phyllo dough
  3. Use 4 cups pecans milled or finely chopped
  4. Take 1 and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  5. You need 2 sticks melted unsalted butter, clarified
  6. You need 1 bottle whole cloves
  7. You need Pastry brush
  8. Provide 1 9x13 pan
  9. Provide For the syrup
  10. You need 2 cups water
  11. You need 1 cup sugar
  12. Get 1 cup honey (I use wildflower honey)
  13. Take 1 lemon cut in half, only use half
  14. Get 1 cinnamon stick
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 !! 😋❤️😋

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