Filo pastry
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Thin sheets of pastry commonly used in Greek, eastern European and Middle Eastern cuisines.
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Filo dough is a type of pastry dough which is used in many different Greek dishes. It may also be called puff pastry, for its light and fluffy texture, or be spelled phyllo. Filo is a combination of flour, cornstarch, water, and oil.
Filo Pastry
This type of pastry (along with finely shredded kadafi pastry, also from the Mediterranean) is made in very thin sheets and used as a casing for numerous delicate savoury and sweet dishes.
Filo
Phyllo (also spelled 'filo') dough is used in thin layers to make pastries and originated in Mediterranean cuisine. Versions of phyllo can also be used as crusts for pies or casseroles.
Filo pastry
Thin sheets of pastry commonly used in Greek, eastern European and Middle Eastern cuisines.
Filo - in Greece, philo is the very flaky, buttery pastry made by layering dough with shortening and rolling it and rerolling it.
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filo pastry leaves See phyllo.
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Filo, Phyllo:
Layers of paper-thin leaves of dough used in Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine. Frozen phyllo dough can be found in most supermarkets and should be thawed overnight in the refrigerator. Also spelled "phylo," "filo," and "fillo." ...
filo dough: A dough in very thin sheets that becomes very flaky when baked; also spelled phyllo.
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Cut the filo sheets to approximately the same size as your baking tin. Lay six sheets of filo snugly into the baking tin, brushing each sheet with butter as you stack them up and pressing them in firmly.
Phyllo or Filo: another food whose origin is difficult to pinpoint but this paper-thin pastry is usually made commercially of egg, flour, and water.
Take a piece of filo dough and brush it with the melted butter. Add another sheet and lightly brush it also with butter. With the narrow side facing you, cut into 3 pieces.. Place the chicken Breast on the center and add 1 T. of the filling.
made of layers of fila pastry, chopped nuts, and a honey-flavored syrup Bourekakia: fila puffs made with various fillings Dolmades: grapevine leaves stuffed with rice or meat Feta: the classic white goat cheese of Greece Fila, filo, ...
Phyllo Dough (Filo) - Paper-thin sheets of pastry dough for Middle Eastern baking. Can be found in most supermarkets frozen in boxes. Used for Greek Baklava and many other baked dishes.
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Oklave A long, smooth, tapered rolling pin used to roll flatbreads and filo. Orta A Turkish term meaning "medium", as in medium-sweet coffee. Oturma Simmered and fried stuffed vegetables filled with browned spices.
The word phyllo (sometimes spelled filo) is Greek for "leaf." Although phyllo can be made at home, a frozen commercial product is available and much handier to use.
Albanian pies are generally made of thin pastry leaves which can be rolled out at home or bought as FILO dough at a supermarket. Most of the pies prepared by Albanian cooks are not sweet; instead, pie fillings are almost always salty.
strudel (STROO-dal) - It is a dessert with a delicate casing made of paper-thin layers of filo pastry, each of which is brushed with butter. The Austrians say the pastry is so thin that you can read a love letter through it.
A sweet dessert pastry that originated in Greece and other Eastern Mediterranean countries. It is made with layers of phyllo (filo) pastry, nuts, and spices and is soaked with honey and lemon syrup.
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Phyllo dough: Pastry made with very thin sheets of a flour-and-water dough layered with butter and/or crumbs; similar to strudel. (Also called filo.) ...
Phyllo - A Greek pastry, phyllo is made up of tissue-thin layers of dough. The dough is used for dishes such as baklava and spanikopita. It can usually be found frozen in supermarkets. Phyllo is sometimes spelled filo.
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The original recipe used homemade puff pastry (another recipe in the same book, Recipe #284127), but it's simpler to buy frozen puff pastry. Just remember that puff pastry is not the same thing as filo/phyllo dough. Times..." ...
filo See phyllo.
financiere, a la (Fr.) Meat or poultry garnished with cocks' combs
and kidneys, sweetbreads, mushrooms, olives, and truffles; sometimes
these ingredients are encased in vol-au-vent pastry.
 See also: Pastry, Cooking, Butter, Onion, Dessert
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