Stretchy and super elastic phyllo dough
Servings: 1 dough
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- pastry cloth
Ingredients
- 250 g (8.8 oz) All-purpose flour (best is high gluten flour)
- 20 g (1.5tbsp) vegetable oil
- 1 pinch salt
- 1,5 dcl (0,63 cups=7,87 fl oz) water
Notes
Step 1.
Put the flour into a mixing bowl. Add salt, oil, and water. Don't add all the water at once; instead, add half of it and start mixing. Then after the ingredients begin to combine, which will happen in a few seconds, start to add the rest of it in 2 or 3 batches.
Step 2.
Once the ingredients form a ball, it's time to transfer the dough onto a working surface. Flour the surface with some flour, transfer the dough and start kneading. I explained the kneading process above. Once the dough is smooth and stretchy, place it back into a mixing bowl and cover it with plastic wrap.
Step 3.
Rest the dough for at least 20 minutes. It would be best if you could rest it for an hour.
Step 4.
Take the dough out of the bowl and form more petite dough balls. The number of balls depends on what you will use the dough.
If you are making a strudel for a family of five, you don't have to make the balls.
If you are making spanakopita or a dish that requires several phyllo pastry sheets, then it is best to make balls the size of your fist.
Either way, you can cut the stretch dough into desired sheet sizes.
Step 5
After making the balls, flour put a large pastry cloth on a working area and dust it with flour. Place the ball on the cloth and roll it into a circle.
Repeat the same with all balls.
Step 6.
Spread a thin layer of oil or melted butter onto a rolled dough. Only spread it on the top layer of the dough and not the bottom. The amount of oil depends on the size of the rolled dough, but be sure to apply a thin layer.
Rest the dough so the oil can be absorbed, which will make it super elastic.
Step 7.
Stretch the dough as much as you can by starting on the edges. Work your way around the dough and stretch it with every pull you make. You can check how to stretch this dough above in the video.
