Filo Dough

Zimi Gia Filo

Preparation info
  • About

    sixteen

    12 inch square sheets of dough
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Baker's Tour: Nick Malgieri's Favorite Baking Recipes from Around the World

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

  • About

Though excellent industrially made filo dough is available, many Greek and Middle Eastern households make their own; and while store-bought dough will do a perfectly good job in any of these recipes (and they include instructions for using the packaged kind), I did want to include a recipe so that you will know how the dough is prepared.

Made in much the same way as strudel dough, filo dough is stretched into individual small sheets, rather than one large sheet. Although I almost al