🥮 Greek baklava

Name: Greek baklava
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Greece
Ingredients: 500 g phyllo pastry; 250 g butter, melted; 400 g walnuts, chopped; 2 tsp ground cinnamon; ½ tsp ground clove, plus whole cloves to decorate; 300 g honey; 150 ml water

Origin: Greece

210kcal

per serving · 60 g

350kcal

per 100 g

4 gProtein6 g / 100 g

13 gFat22 g / 100 g

21 gCarbs35 g / 100 g

Greek baklava layers buttered phyllo sheets with chopped walnuts spiced with cinnamon and clove, then bakes them until crisp and golden. While still hot it is soaked in a honey syrup, giving a crackly top and sticky, fragrant nut layers. It is cut into diamonds, often studded with a whole clove, and served in small pieces with coffee.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

✓

No pork

Not veganbecause of: honey, butter

Contains glutenbecause of: phyllo pastry

Contains dairybecause of: butter

Not keto35 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Milk ⚠ Tree nuts

What it is made of

phyllo pastrywalnutshoneycinnamonclovebutter

Recipe

24 servings90 min

Ingredients

500 g phyllo pastry
250 g butter, melted
400 g walnuts, chopped
2 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground clove, plus whole cloves to decorate
300 g honey
150 ml water

Method

Heat the oven to 175 °C and butter a 30 × 20 cm tin.
Mix the walnuts with the cinnamon and ground clove.
Layer phyllo sheets, brushing each with butter, scattering walnuts every few sheets, and finish with several buttered sheets.
Cut into diamonds, press a clove into each, and bake for 50 minutes until golden.
Warm the honey with the water and pour over the hot pastry; let it soak for several hours.

How to make it lighter

Keep portions to one small diamond — the nuts, butter and honey add up quickly.
Brush the phyllo with a thin layer of butter; each tablespoon is about 100 kcal.
Serve with unsweetened coffee or tea rather than another sweet drink.

History

Baklava came to Greece as part of the shared Ottoman-era kitchen of the eastern Mediterranean. The Greek version is usually made with walnuts, cinnamon and a honey syrup, and it is a traditional sweet for name days, Christmas and Easter.

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