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The ingredients needed to prepare Greek Baklava:
- Take For the Baklava
- Prepare 2 (16 oz) packages phyllo dough
- Provide 4 cups pecans milled or finely chopped
- Use 1 and a 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Use 2 sticks melted unsalted butter, clarified
- You need 1 bottle whole cloves
- Use Pastry brush
- Provide 1 9x13 pan
- Take For the syrup
- Take 2 cups water
- Provide 1 cup sugar
- Take 1 cup honey (I use wildflower honey)
- Provide 1 lemon cut in half, only use half
- You need 1 cinnamon stick
Steps to make Greek Baklava:
- 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
- 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
- Make the Baklava: Mix pecans with the ground cinnamon, melt the butter, clarify it and butter the pan
- 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
- Place about a 1/4 of the nut mixture on top of the 10 buttered sheets
- 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
- Butter the very top, even pour the rest of your butter and carefully cut baklava lengthwise 4 rows then cut diagonally for diamonds
- 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
- 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
- Let it sit for at least 8 hours to overnight to soak up all the sweet syrup (I know it's hard to resist) 😇
- It can be stored at room temperature for a week, longer in the fridge ENJOY !! 😋❤️😋
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