phyllo
Noun
Meaning
tissue thin sheets of pastry used especially in Greek dishes
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Börek is the general name for salty pastries made with yufka (a thicker version of phyllo dough), which consists of thin layers of dough.
Gözleme is a food typical in rural areas, made of lavash bread or phyllo dough folded around a variety of fillings such as spinach, cheese and parsley, minced meat or potatoes and cooked on a large griddle (traditionally sač ).
Puff pastry differs from phyllo (filo) pastry, though puff pastry can be substituted for phyllo in some applications.
Dish you may have heard of: Classic walnut baklava, a layered pastry made with phyllo dough and chopped walnuts.
Lightly brush the bottom of a deep 9-inch pie pan with butter and lay the stack of phyllo across the pan.
But one dough we hadn't worked with was phyllo, that marvelous tissue-thin dough from Istanbul that is most famously used for baklava.