Filo
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Filo or yufka is a very thin unleavened pastry dough used for making baked goods. Filo-based products are made by layering many sheets of filo brushed with oil or butter; the pastry is then baked.
Baklava, made with filo pastry
Freshly baked yufkas in layers
Börek
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Börek, also referred to as burek or byrek, is a family of pastries or pies made in West Asia and Southeast Europe. The pastry is made of a thin flaky dough such as filo with a variety of fillings, suc
Filo
…the Ottoman Empire by the 15th century. During this period, it became the foundation for a variety of sweet or savoury pastries, such as baklava and börek, which further diversified in shape over the centuries. Commercially manufactured filo became widely available in supermarkets during the 1970s. The…
Algerian bourek pastry
Armenian herb and cheese-stuffed byoreks
Byrek in Albania
Albanian triangle byrek