INTERNATIONAL: BORDERLESS CUISINE: Phyllo or Filo or fillo dough or pastry - Part 1
LINK to Phyllo Gif
Greek Filo or phyllo is a very thin unleavened dough used for making pastries such as baklava and borek in Mideastern (Middle-Eastern cuisine includes
Arab cuisine,IranianPersian cuisine,Israeli cuisine/Jewish cuisine,Assyrian cuisine,Armenian cuisine, Kurdish cuisine,Greek cuisine/Cypriot cuisine, Turkish cuisine, Balkan cuisine. Filo-based pastries are made by layering many sheets of filo brushed with olive oil or butter; the pastry is then baked.
Baklava ? An Ottoman (With Constantinople as its capital and control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries.) dessert with layers of filo with chopped nuts, sweetened and held together with syrup or honey. The forerunner to baklava was the Roman Placenta Cake.
Placenta cake (Roman/Turkish/and or Greek early historic cake)
The oldest (2nd century BCE) recipe that resembles a similar dessert is the honey covered baked layered-dough dessert placenta of Roman times.
LINK To Placenta information, recipe VIDEO, etc.
Baklava
LINK to Walnut and Pistachio Baklava
Banitsa ? A Bulgarian dish consisting of eggs, cheese and filo baked in the oven.
Two Banista photos above
LINK to photo step by step Banista recipe
Borek - A savory filo pie originally from the Ottoman Empire.
LINK to Turkish ...
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