Some of the most common ingredients found in the Filipino pantry are chili (sili), Chinese sausage (Longaniza; longganisa), coconut (niyog), cornflour, garlic (bawang), ginger (luya), mushrooms, pandan leaf (screwpine), tomato (kamatis) and lemon grass (tanglad). Chili (Sili).
(Redirected from Phyllo) Filo (or phyllo) (Greek: ÏÏÎ»Î»Î¿ leaf) is a very thin unleavened dough used for making pastries such as baklava and bÃ¶rek in Middle Eastern, Greek, and Balkan cuisines. Filo-based pastries are made by layering many sheets of filo brushed with olive oil; the pastry is then baked.
Meaning: Dough used for very light flaky rich pastries. Classified under: Nouns denoting foods and drinks. Synonyms: pate feuillete; puff paste. Hypernyms (pate feuillete is a kind of...): pastry; pastry dough (a dough of flour and water and shortening) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of pate feuillete): phyllo (tissue thin sheets of pastry used especially in Greek dishes)