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.

PHYLLO APPLE STRUDEL

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine cinnamon, breadcrumbs, lemon zest, sugar, and diced apple.
• Divide package of phyllo into half (each half makes one strudel).
• Brush each sheet of pastry with melted butter.
• Top with another sheet of pastry and repeat until half of phyllo is used.
• Sprinkle lightly with additional breadcrumbs.
• Divide apple filling in half and spread along length of layered phyllo.
• Roll phyllo loosely over filling to create a roll and place on parchment lined baking sheet.
• Brush generously with butter.
• Repeat with remaining phyllo and apple filling.
• Bake@ 400 for 20 minutes, reduce to 350 and bake for an additional 10 minutes Dust cooled strudels with icing sugar.

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.