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Filo pastry

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, filo pastry means: Very thin sheets of dough layered or folded to make crisp pastries.

In Turkish: ince yufka hamuru, filo

How it is used

Also spelled phyllo; recipes commonly refer to sheets or layers.

Example sentences

  1. Layer the filo pastry around the spinach filling.

    Separate thin sheets form the pastry's layered structure.

  2. The baked filo pastry broke into delicate flakes.

    The example describes the brittle texture after baking.

Common collocations

  • filo pastry sheets
  • phyllo dough
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.
  • pastry chefA chef who specialises in desserts, pastries, breads and other baked goods and usually runs the pastry section of a kitchen. Also called a pâtissier.

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