Filo pastry can be fried or oven-baked and cooks very quickly. It's used to make a wide variety of sweet and savoury dishes, such as Greek spanakopita (spinach and cheese triangles) or decadent ...
Butter baking tray (or line with baking paper) and set aside. Butter 3 pieces of filo pastry and place them on top of each other. Place a thick strip of custard in the middle of the filo pastry ...
You now have one thicker piece for the base and 3 thin pieces of pastry for the top. Lightly oil each piece. Place the thicker filo pastry sheet at the bottom of the baking dish, so that the ...
Phyllo means leaf in Greek: a name that couldn't be more accurate. Phyllo pastry is made from many thin layers and is achieved by a very complex lamination that involves not only a fat ...
Spanakopita (a traditional Greek spinach and feta pie) is sometimes cooked in this shape. For a vegetarian version of this pie I would roast and mash pumpkin and combine it with the spinach and ...