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How To – make filo pastry, from ‘Jamie Does…’


00:00:00I’m going to show you how to make honey

00:00:02feta phyllo pies first of all you need

00:00:06to take your pastry out of its pack and

00:00:09lay it next to where you’re going to be

00:00:11working on a cool surface now phyllo is

00:00:15very thin and very very delicate and it

00:00:19dries very quickly and when it dries it

00:00:21goes brittle and then you can’t bend it

00:00:23or use it because it cracks so the best

00:00:25thing I do take it out of the fridge

00:00:27take it out the pack lay it on your work

00:00:29surface and cover it with a cloth

00:00:34now this cloth I’ve rinsed it in cold

00:00:36water and wrung all the moisture on it –

00:00:38it’s just damn it’s not wet it’s just

00:00:39damp and I’ve covered the pastry with it

00:00:42and it keeps it moist and keeps it from

00:00:44drying out so that’s an important tip

00:00:48right now I’m going to make the filling

00:00:50so I’m taking my little Bowl in goes my

00:00:54feta cheese oil we want two tablespoons

00:01:14runny honey four teaspoons

00:01:23don’t ask me super exact with this

00:01:38Oh

00:01:41and two teaspoons of dried oregano

00:01:53just scrape all the rest of honey off

00:01:56there I know there’s a lot together

00:02:10maybe not that fine

00:02:13right and I’m going to put all all this

00:02:16other ingredients to the side and the

00:02:18filling I’ve just made to the side I’ve

00:02:22got my pick time ready

00:02:24olive oil ready and the pastry brush

00:02:26ready because as soon as we take the

00:02:28field pastry out we don’t want to be

00:02:30waiting around because it’s going to be

00:02:31drying all the time so take my first

00:02:35sheet

00:02:41lay on my board cover it back up you

00:02:46must remember to do this otherwise it

00:02:47will start drying brush very lightly the

00:02:55bit of olive oil

00:03:02you just want it very lightly brush

00:03:04knock knock damn weather oil sprinkle

00:03:07with a few time wings

00:03:17I’m gonna just put another sheet or feel

00:03:21on top

00:03:28just like that okay I’ll cut it down the

00:03:34middle with sharp knife

00:03:44and that’s the pastry ready to put the

00:03:47pie filling on

00:03:52here’s my filling I’m gonna take a small

00:03:56spoonful pop it on the middle and one of

00:04:02my pastry sheets maybe a couple more

00:04:06bits

00:04:10shape it roughly into a rectangle like

00:04:14that

00:04:14doesn’t that be super accurate roughly a

00:04:16rectangle I’ll do the other one I’m

00:04:19sitting here

00:04:35No

00:04:37first a rule aside a bit like wrapping a

00:04:41present less all the sides into pastry

00:04:47meets in the middle take the bottom up

00:04:52and the top down

00:04:56there’s parcel one

00:05:00same thing with parcel to base we should

00:05:05meet in the middle

00:05:09brought them up

00:05:11top-down

00:05:15now here I got baking sheet I’ve just

00:05:18rubbed with a tiny bit of oil so nothing

00:05:21sticks to it I’m gonna lift paisan

00:05:34and the side with a seal I’m gonna put

00:05:36underneath so the weight of the

00:05:39ingredients holds it closed and when you

00:05:42made all of them brush with a little bit

00:05:46of oil and pop in the oven

00:06:02you

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