Phyllo

Phyllo is an ultra-thin, unleavened wheat dough sold as stacked, paperlike sheets. Brushed with fat and baked, it turns shatteringly crisp and flaky; cooks layer, fold, and wrap it for pastries and savory pies such as baklava, börek, spanakopita, and strudel, and it is typically sold frozen or refrigerated.

Phyllo developed in the Ottoman culinary sphere and spread through Greece, Turkey, and the Balkans. Modern production uses mechanized sheeters with light starch dusting before packaging for refrigerated or frozen distribution.