The recipe for filo at home is extremely simple, but it takes a lot of time and it is not possible to reach the fineness of the shop sheets manually in any case.
Recipe for a test of filo at home
The dough itself consists of five of the simplest ingredients, you do not need to use either yeast or baking powder.
Ingredients:
- flour - 275 g;
- salt - 1/4 tsp.
- water 195 ml;
- vegetable oil - 55 ml;
- vinegar - 5 ml.
Preparation
Before making dough filo, you need to put together all the liquids: water, vegetable oil and vinegar. The flour is mixed separately with the salt, and then the mixer is turned on (or usually wielded with a wooden spatula) and begins to knead. Gradually pouring liquids to the flour, you should knead a slightly sticky dough, which in ready-made form should be additionally kneaded for about 15 minutes. Next, the dough lightly oiled, pre-rounded, and leave to rest for about an hour and a half.
Since the dough is sticky, you always have to keep a little flour on hand. Pour it on the table from time to time, continuing rolling. Roll out the dough pieces the size of a golf ball as thin as possible.
Greek filo dough made at home, piled together, lightly dusting each of the layers with flour. All the dough can then be rolled up and stored in a freezer, or used immediately.
Recipe for Greek pasty pies
After figuring out how to make dough filo at home, we'll move on to a recipe in which you can use it. Applications in filo are not less than the usual puff pastry, most often with it they cook baklava, but the Greeks themselves like to make small triangular patties with spinach and cottage cheese. We will devote the following recipe to them.
Ingredients:
- spinach frozen - 520 g;
- grated cheese - 115 g;
- cottage cheese - 210 g;
- Dried garlic and onions - 1 teaspoon each;
- sour cream - 85 ml;
- cream cheese - 115 g;
- dough filo.
Preparation
Defrost the spinach, wring it and mix it with cottage cheese, grated cheese, dried onion and garlic. Add sour cream, cream cheese and a pinch of salt. Cut a rectangle from the filo test and put a portion of the filling on its lower edge. Bend one of the lower corners so as to completely cover the filling. Turn the dough up and cover with a free upper corner to get a triangle. Bake cakes for 25 minutes at 180 degrees.