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Phyllo

Also called filo

Phyllo is a dough made with flour and water. Cooks stuff and bake it, sometimes with butter, for a crunchy texture.

Texture
Crunchy
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Türkiye
Phyllo, in dish

Photo: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use phyllo

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Stuff

Made from

Preparing it

Roll and stretch homemade dough progressively into one large, thin sheet. When stretching by hand, flour between layers to keep them from sticking. For pastries, brush the rolled sheets with oil or melted butter and stack them.

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Crunchy

Shopping

Choosing and storing phyllo

Sold as
Fresh, Frozen
Availability
Supermarkets (01M6Z352THTQS2JKSGGCM8MVNT)

Nutrition

What 100 g of phyllo holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 11%Fat 9%Carbohydrate 80%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of phyllo
Energy299 kcal · 1,251 kJ
Protein7.1 g
Fat6 g
of which saturated1.5 g
Carbohydrate53 g
of which sugars0.18 g
Fibre1.9 g
Sodium483 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of phyllo: minerals and vitamins
Potassium74 mg
Calcium11 mg
Iron3.2 mg
Magnesium15 mg
Zinc0.49 mg
Folate88 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 172791), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where phyllo is cooked

3 dishes in the catalogue use phyllo. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list phyllo among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1960s · United States

    Greek immigrants began popularizing handmade filo in parts of the United States.

  2. 1971 · United States

    A practical filo machine helped make frozen commercial dough available in American supermarkets.

On the table

Dishes made with phyllo

3 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Baklava

  • Bülbülyuvası

    Syria, Türkiye

  • Şöbiyet

    Türkiye

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include phyllo.

Around the world

What phyllo is called

Names in 39 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    masa filo

  • French

    pâte phyllo · pâte filo · phyllo · filo

  • Italian

    pasta fillo

  • Portuguese

    massa filo

  • German

    Blätterteig

  • Dutch

    filodeeg

  • Greek

    φύλλο

  • Turkish

    Yufka

  • Russian

    филло

  • Polish

    Filo · Fyllo

  • Arabic

    رقائق عجين

  • Persian

    خمیر فیلو

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  • Armenian

    Ֆիլո

  • Azerbaijani

    Kövrək

  • Basque

    brik orri · ore filo

  • Belarusian

    філа

  • Bulgarian

    кора за баница

  • Catalan

    pasta fil·lo

  • Chinese

    菲洛酥皮 · 尤甫卡

  • Czech

    tažené těsto · filo · phyllo · yufka

  • Danish

    Filodej

  • Egyptian Arabic

    عجينة الفيلو

  • Esperanto

    Foliopasto (fermentŝvelita)

  • Finnish

    Filo-taikina

  • Hebrew

    פילו

  • Indonesian

    Phyllo

  • Japanese

    フィロ生地 · フィロ · ユフカ

  • Javanese

    Filo

  • Korean

    필로

  • Kurdish

    hevîrê şikeva

  • Kurdish (Latin)

    hevîrê şikeva

  • Kyrgyz

    Жупка

  • Macedonian

    Кори

  • Malay

    Filo

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Filodeig

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    filodeig

  • Romanian

    filo · phyllo

  • Swedish

    Filodeg

  • Ukrainian

    філло · листкове тісто

  • Urdu

    فیلو (بقلاوہ)

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q1866347

Photos

Photo: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons