Phyllo Filo Strudel With Port Wine Sauce Recipes

PHYLLO (FILO) STRUDEL WITH PORT WINE SAUCE

Steps:

• For the strudel:.
• Heat olive oil in pan, add mushrooms and garlic and saute for a few minutes or until starting to become soft. Drain well.
• Saute the leeks until tender.
• Mix the cheeses together with salt, pepper and other seasonings of your liking (I use herbes de provence.) Fold in the mushrooms, leeks and tomatoes. Chill for a couple of hours.
• Preheat oven to 400°F Lay out 6 sheets of phyllo on a lightly floured surface and brush with melted butter. Cover with layer two, more melted butter, then layer three. Brush butter only on the edges of the top layer.
• Divide the chilled filling into six long "sausages" and place one on the bottom edge of the phyllo rectangle. Fold the bottom edge over the filling, tuck in the sides and roll up into a tight parcel. Brush with butter and place on baking sheet.
• Bake for 25 minutes until crisp and golden.
• For the sauce:.
• Pour the wine into a pan, bring to boil and reduce by half. (Add the bay leaf to the wine if you want it a little more "herby.").
• Heat the olive oil in a saute pan and cook the onion, mushrooms and garlic with a seasoning of your choice.
• Add a big glug of port and reduce by half.
• Pour in the reduced wine and bring back to a boil. Then add the stock. Bring back to a boil and cook for 15 minutes.
• Just before serving whisk in the cold butter to give it a really great shine.
• To serve, pour a little sauce on each plate and set a strudel on top.

MUSHROOM PHYLLO STRUDEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Saute mushrooms in butter and olive oil till well-softened.
• Add sherry, thyme, cream, and salt/pepper and cook till thickened.
• Lay out the phyllo sheets, brushing each sheet with melted butter.
• Cut in half so you have two equal rectangles.
• Spread half the mushroom mixture over one of your phyllo rectangles, leaving a 1-inch border around the edges.
• Fold the short side edges over the mushroom mixture and then roll the whole thing lengthwise so you have a long, fat cylinder with no mushroom filling poking out.
• Repeat with remaining mushroom mixture and the other rectangle.
• Place rectangles side-by side, seam-side down, on a baking sheet, and bake in oven 20 minutes or until golden brown.
• Let rest for 10 minutes, then slice and serve.
• **Alternate preparation: Using two phyllo sheets at a time, cut into 6-8 strips and prepare as you would for spanakopita, folding each strip into a triangle.
• Use a Tbsp
• of the mushroom filling for each one.

MUSHROOM STRUDEL

Steps:

• In a large skillet, over medium heat, combine oil, mushrooms, onion and garlic.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Stir frequently, until mushrooms have released their liquid and most of that liquid is evaporated.
• Add the wine, the thyme, the basil, the spinach and the lemon rind.
• Saute until the liquid is evaporated.
• Transfer to a bowl and allow to cool.
• Stir in cheese, 4 tablespoons of the breadcrumbs.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Line a cookie sheet with buttered parchment paper.
• Lay out one sheet of phyllo, brush with melted butter, top with another sheet of phyllo and brush again with butter.
• Repeat (using in total four sheet of dough).
• Sprinkle breadcrumbs over the phyllo dough.
• Lay out mushroom mixture over one end of Phyllo dough.
• Carefully roll into a strudel, tucking in the ends.
• Brush the strudel with butter.
• Bake until golden and crisp--about 30 minutes.

SALMON AND CRAB IN PHYLLO WITH WHITE WINE HONEY MUSTARD SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F and lightly oil (or use cooking spray) a glass baking dish.
• Place parsley, bread crumbs, 1/2 tsp dill weed, lemon juice, garlic, lemon pepper, and 2 Tbsp white wine in a mini food processor or chopper; process until parsley is finely chopped and the other ingredients are well combined.
• Add in cream cheese and process again until well mixed.
• Add parmesan and crab and pulse a couple of times just to lightly mix everything together and to break up the crab a bit (don't pulverize the crab).
• Lay out one sheet of phyllo and spray with cooking spray or lightly brush with olive oil.
• Layer a second sheet on top and spray again.
• Spoon half of the crab mixture into the middle of the phyllo, and lay one salmon filet on top.
• Wrap and fold the dough over the fish, and place fold side down in the baking dish.
• Spray the top of the packet with cooking spray.
• Repeat with the remaining phyllo, fish, and crab mixture.
• Bake for approximately 30 minutes, until the fish is cooked and the phyllo has begun to brown.
• When there are just a few minutes of baking time left, combine all the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan with a wire whisk.
• Cook over medium-low heat while whisking continuously, and remove from heat as soon as it comes to a boil.
• Spoon sauce over the packets and serve.

FARMER'S CHEESE AND RAISIN FILO STRUDEL

Steps:

• 1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat to 350°F. Lightly brush a 13 x 9-inch glass baking dish with a little of the melted butter.
• 2. Using a rubber spatula, work the cheese through a medium-meshed wire sieve into a medium bowl. Stir the bread crumbs and milk in another medium bowl.
• 3. Beat the room-temperature butter in a large bowl with a handheld mixer on high speed until creamy. Add the sugar, lemon zest, and vanilla and beat until light in color and texture, about 2 minutes. Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time. Mix in the farmer's cheese, soaked bread crumbs, and sour cream.
• 4. In another medium bowl, using very clean beaters, beat the egg whites at high speed until they form stiff peaks. Stir about one fourth of the whites into the cheese mixture, then fold in the remaining whites. Fold in the raisins.
• 5. Place a filo sheet in the prepared pan, letting excess dough hang over the sides. Using a soft brush, lightly brush the filo as best as you can with melted butter. Layer 5 more filo sheets, buttering each layer. Pour in the cheese mixture and spread evenly. Layer with 6 more filo sheets, buttering each layer and the top. Tuck the excess filo into the baking pan.
• 6. Bake until the top is golden brown, about 1 hour. Cool for 30 minutes. Dust the top of the strudel with confectioners' sugar. Serve warm or cooled, with the vanilla sauce, if you wish.
• MAKE AHEAD
• The strudel is best the day it is baked.