Some of the most common ingredients found in the Filipino pantry are chili (sili), Chinese sausage (Longaniza; longganisa), coconut (niyog), cornflour, garlic (bawang), ginger (luya), mushrooms, pandan leaf (screwpine), tomato (kamatis) and lemon grass (tanglad). Chili (Sili).
(Redirected from Phyllo) Filo (or phyllo) (Greek: ÏÏÎ»Î»Î¿ leaf) is a very thin unleavened dough used for making pastries such as baklava and bÃ¶rek in Middle Eastern, Greek, and Balkan cuisines. Filo-based pastries are made by layering many sheets of filo brushed with olive oil; the pastry is then baked.
Sponge cake is made with flour, sugar, and eggs at a ratio of 1:1:2. Short pastry is made by mixing flour, eggs, butter, and sugar, with the butter and sugar comprising 60 and 40 percent of the quantity of the flour. Puff pastry is made by mixing flour and eggs with water in which salt and a small amount of citric acid have been dissolved.