phyllo
Also known as filo, phyllo dough
Filo, phyllo or yufka is a very thin unleavened dough used for making pastries such as baklava and börek. Filo-based pastries are made by layering many sheets of filo brushed with oil or butter; the pastry is then baked.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Filo
- Food.image
- Baklava.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- Baklava, made with filo pastry
- Food.place_of_origin
- Ancient Greece
- Food.type
- Dough
- Food.main_ingredient
- Flour, water, oil
- Food.no_recipes
- true
- Food.no_commons
- true
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Name and etymology
- History
- Origin
- Ottoman period
- Popularization
- Preparation
- Use
- List of filo-based pastries
- Comparison to similar pastries
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Filo, phyllo or yufka is a very thin unleavened dough used for making pastries such as baklava and börek. Filo-based pastries are made by layering many sheets of filo brushed with oil or butter; the pastry is then baked.
==Name and etymology==