Homemade Phyllo Dough Recipe with step by step pictures. Phyllo means leaf or sheet in Greek, refers to the pastry that is wrapped around savory and sweet pies.
Homemade Phyllo Pastry
Baklava is one the sweet which i wanted to try for so many years. The first time which i heard about this sweet is from a cooking show and i almost drooled over it, it looked so delicious you can never resist it..From that day onwards i wanted to try it so badly.
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About Homemade Phyllo Dough Recipe
The first step in baklava making is to get the phyllo dough. It is available in the freezer section of some super markets. But I couldn't find it in my place. So I made homemade phyllo pastry using a simple recipe and it works like a charm. The key for perfect phyllo pastry is to roll it as thin as possible.
This pastry is a universal recipe, you can use that for making so many desert and even spring rolls, i had few sheets leftover from this recipe and i made a delicious chilli cheese spring rolls and it turned out wonderful.
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Ingredients for Homemade Phyllo Dough
All Purpose flour
Plain flour is used in this recipe. All purpose flour is mixed with vinegar, salt and warm water to make a dough. The dough is let to rest for 30 mins before rolling.
Cornstarch
Cornstarch is essential in making phyllo dough or phyllo pastry because it helps the phyllo from sticky to each other.
Vinegar
Vinegar is used in the dough for making the phyllo pastry crisp when baking in oven.
Olive Oil
I like to use extra virgin olive oil which makes the pastry crispy and flaky when baking.
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Homemade Phyllo Dough Recipe | Phyllo Pastry Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Vinegar
- 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- ¾ cup Warm water
- 1 cup Cornstarch
Instructions
- Take flour, salt, oil, vinegar in a bowl. Mix well. pour in warm water and knead it to a firm dough. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 mins to 1 hour.
- Divide it into 30 equal balls. dust with some cornstarch and set aside covered.
- Take five balls and roll it gently. I rolled it till it is in the size of my palm. Once the five balls are rolled. Dust it with cornstarch generously and stack over each other.
- Roll it gently without giving much pressure. Once it is rolled a bit, i like to peel each layer carefully and gently dust some more cornstarch over the sheets. Stack them again and roll even more till thin.
- Once the sheets are rolled almost the size of the pan which you are going to bake. Gently peel each layers separately.
- Place it in a plate which is dusted heavily with cornstarch. Cover the sheets with damp cloth and set aside. Repeat this for the remaining dough.
- Now use this for making baklava or spring rolls or anything.
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Homemade Phyllo Pastry Step by Step pictures
1)Take flour in a bowl.
2)Add salt.
3)Add in olive oil.
4)Add in vinegar
5)Pour in warm water.
6)Knead well to a soft dough.
7)Wrap in plastic wrap and set aside for 30 mins to 1 hour.
8)Unwrap the dough.
9)Divide the dough and roll it into three rope like.
10)Cut each rope into equal balls.
11)Dust with cornstarch
12)take five portions of the ball.
13)Dust generously with cornstarch and roll.
14) I rolled it till it is in the size of my palm. Once the five balls are rolled.
15)Dust it with cornstarch generously and stack over each other.
16)stack them.
17)Roll it gently without giving much pressure.
18)Once it is rolled a bit, i like to peel each layer carefully.
19)gently dust some more cornstarch over the sheets. Stack them again and roll even more till thin.
20)Once the sheets are rolled almost the size of the pan which you are going to bake. Gently peel each layers separately.
21)done.
meeta
Wow....thanks...would like to know how to store them and for how many time we can store...I like to make spring rolls but couldn't get pastry sheet easily ...this will be a grt help..
Anonymous
Wow well done....is there a substitute for vinegar? Or which vinegar should be used? Thanks
Aarthi
@Anonymousu can use lemon juice for vinegar
Joyoti
Would like to try this recipe.
Anonymous
Hi ... can we store this sheets in freezer for future use?. If so, for how many days we can store?
Angel
Which vinegar can I use..storeone or homemade
Aarthi
Use store bought vinegar