noun

• A kind of dough that can be stretched into very thin sheets, used in layers to make both sweet and savoury pastries, especially in eastern Mediterranean cooking.

  as modifier ‘filo pastry’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Some are made with extremely thin layers of filo pastry and have different shapes.’
  • ‘Line a tart tin with 3-4 sheets of filo pastry, well brushed with melted butter.’
  • ‘The traditional Arab dessert is baklava, which is an exquisite pastry with layers of phyllo dough covered with nuts and honey.’
  • ‘A peppery, spinach-and-feta-stuffed turnover of brittle phyllo pastry is a kick.’
  • ‘A favorite kind of sweet is layers of a thin pastry called filo, filled with nuts or creams, similar to baklava.’
  • ‘I've also come up with sweet phyllo dough; nut milks and nut butter are crucial to what I do.’
  • ‘Place 3-4 layers of phyllo dough on the bottom of the pan.’
  • ‘Lay a first sheet of filo dough on a large cutting board or clean work surface, covering the stack of remaining sheets with a piece of saran wrap topped with a damp dish towel.’
  • ‘Lightly brush the sheet of filo dough with olive oil, then sprinkle with roughly a tablespoon of breadcrumbs.’
  • ‘In other words, exactly what you expect of filo pastry parcels.’
  • ‘It is very easy to make, using Greek filo pastry from the supermarket and whatever apples you can find.’
  • ‘Baklava, that sweet, messy pastry made of filo dough, nuts and honey is a treat in both countries.’
  • ‘These light and crisp bite-sized parcels of mozzarella and pesto can be made with Chinese spring-roll pastry (wonton wrappers) or filo.’
  • ‘To serve as filo parcels, cut a sheet of filo in half lengthways and brush one half with butter.’
  • ‘The signature dish consists of filo pastry stuffed with haggis sitting on a sweet plum sauce.’
  • ‘Place three or four layers of filo pastry in an oven proof tray, brush them with unsalted butter (can be done with polyunsaturated oil if desired).’
  • ‘Lay out sheets of filo pastry and brush lightly with some melted butter.’
  • ‘Lay 3 sheets of filo pastry flat on a tea towel, brushing between each sheet with melted butter.’
  • ‘Filo dough can be made by hand, but unless you are very accomplished you can never make it as thin as it is produced by machine.’
  • ‘Make sure that your work surface is perfectly dry or else the filo will stick and turn into mush.’