phy-lily, fi-lily, phyllo, filo!


I had more filo dough left over from the pigs inna blanket. I ALSO had some mashed potatoes left over from this weekend.

So here's what I did.

I cooked some lean ground beef in a pan with sweet onions and garlic. Then I added some nutmeg, cayenne, paprika, salt and pepper.

I put a large can of tomato paste in with this and let it cool a little.

I laid out 4 sheets of filo dough in the bottom of a glass pan with butter brushed on the first sheet and the last. Then I crumbled the cold mashed potatoes as a bottom layer on top of the dough.

I scooped all the meat sauce on top of the potatoes and crumbled a liberal amount of domestic feta cheese on top of that.

I topped it off with layer upon layer of filo till I ran out of butter to brush each sheet with.

Here's what it looked like out of the oven!

hot dog! pigs inna blanket

So I wanted to try my hand at phyllo/filo dough and give into my craving for pigs in a blanket at the same time. Here's the result:


I laid out each sheet and brushed it with melted butter before applying another. I used 4 sheets thickness for these and had to use two sets to do the whole package of mini franks.

I'm still searching for the best tasting mini-franks to go with these, because Nathan's wasn't so hot and neither was Hebrew national.