Filo pastry recipes
Wonderfully flaky and satisfying crispy, filo pastry is a truly versatile ingredient. Discover our favourite filo pastry recipes below.
Ideal for adding texture to sweet or savoury dishes, use filo in desserts including our chocolate tahini ruffle pie and honey, sesame and filo cheesecake puddings or to create stand-out mains, such as Ottolenghi’s curried cauliflower cheese pie.
We’ve got filo pastry recipe classics too, such as spring rolls, spanakopita, cherry strudel and baklava (plus a chocolate version), as well as alternative ideas using this thrifty ingredient. These sausage rolls with cider and apple use filo rather than puff pastry for an extra-crunchy finish – and this salmon pie is topped with filo for the same effect.
Check out our best shortcrust pastry ideas and puff pastry recipes too.
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Harissa recipes
Harissa, feta and filo cigars
Tangy feta meets fiery harissa and sweet honey, all wrapped up in crunchy filo. The perfect pre-dinner bite or bougie...
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Vegetarian Christmas dinner recipes
Root vegetable, chickpea, and feta tart
Looking for a stonking vegetarian main for a dinner party or the Christmas table or that looks the business but...
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Miso recipes
Miso shiitake mushroom tart
This is a seriously tasty tart that’s almost the textbook definition of umami. The filling is full of mushrooms and...
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Pear recipes
Pear and brown butter strudel
This easy pear strudel – flavoured with nutty brown butter, cinnamon and a sprinkling of brandy-soaked sultanas – is a...
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Sustainable recipes
Hake cigars with saffron yogurt
Nathan Outlaw’s filo-wrapped hake cigars make the perfect starter or nibbles to serve with white wine on a sunny evening....
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Vegetarian pie recipes
Ottolenghi’s butternut crunch pie
Team Yotam have done it again – this ruffled filo pie cleverly treads the line between sweet and savoury, with...
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Filo pastry recipes
Armenian pakhlava with pomegranate syrup
“A pakhlava lies at the heart of Armenian baking, from a dish to bring a little joy on Lent days...
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Quick and easy dessert recipes
Sweet filo triangles with cardamom, clementine and pistachios
Say hello to sweet filo triangles! Fragrant cardamom, sticky citrus, crunchy nuts and crisp pastry – this beautiful, festive dessert...
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Comfort food recipes
Ottolenghi’s curried cauliflower cheese filo pie
Cauliflower cheese gets the Ottolenghi treatment in this delicious recipe for curried cauli-cheese filo pie. Comfort food at its finest....
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Tahini recipes
Chocolate tahini ruffle pie
Inspired by the Greek dessert galatopita, our chocolate and tahini ruffle filo pie combines a light, crispy top with a...
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Filo pastry recipes
Pesto, prosciutto and artichoke tart
A few spare spoonfuls of leftover pesto will pep up any weeknight meal, including this smart tart. It’s made with filo...
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Filo pastry recipes
Chocolate baklava
Sweet, crisp baklava is delicious in its traditional form but food writer and cookery expert Debbie Major takes things to...
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Picnic recipes
Feta, spinach, pea and sweetcorn pie
Our easy feta, spinach, pea and sweetcorn pie is topped with golden filo pastry. With just 15 mins prep time,...
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Filo pastry recipes
Smoky cod and butter bean filo pie
A fish pie – but not as you know it. This flaky cod and butter bean filo version is bursting...
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Filo pastry recipes
Sweet potato and chorizo filo pies
Crunch into these quick and easy sweet potato, feta and chorizo pies. They’re wrapped in crisp filo pastry and only take...
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Sweet tart recipes
The very best baklava
Versions of this crisp, nutty confection abound in Greece, Turkey, the Caucasus and the Middle East, but how do you...
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