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.
Blintzes are apparently an offshoot (an evolved or variant form) of blini. They are thin pancakes usually made of wheat flour (not buckwheat), folded to form a casing (as for cheese or fruit) and then sautÃ©ed or baked.