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Basic Phyllo

Ingredients

  • 4 cups of flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp Greek wine vinegar
  • 4 tbs EVOO
  • 1 & 1/2 tea cups of warm water

Instructions

  1. In a bowl, add the flour and create a well in the centre. Add the salt, vinegar and EVOO. Gradually add the water (you may not need to add all of it) and mix all the dough ingredients. The dough should be firm and soft and easily peel off your hands. Take a seperate bowl and brush with EVOO. Place the dough in the bowl and brush the top and sides of the dough wth EVOO. Set the dough aside for at least half an hour.
  2. Divide the dough into two parts, the bottom sheet (2/3 of the dough) and the top sheet (1/3 of the dough).
  3. On a clean and floured work surface, 'open' (rollout) the two sheets of phyllo. When each sheet is nearly rolled out, drizzle lightly with EVOO.
  4. Fold back the corner of each sheet of dough, onto the oil drizzled part, one and a time, and roll out as much as you can, The oil should help the dough stretch a little further and become thinner, without tearing