How Traditional Greek Bougatsa Phyllo Pastry Is Made | Regional Eats
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2022
- Phyllo means leaf in Greek: a name that couldn’t be more accurate. Phyllo pastry is made from many thin layers and is achieved by a very complex lamination that involves not only a fat, like butter or margarine, but also oil. The oil adds extra slip and makes it incredibly difficult to stretch - so difficult that despite phyllo's popularity all over Greece, most bakers have given up making it by hand. We visited Philippos Bandis in Thessaloniki, one of only a few artisanal producers left who is still making phyllo by hand.
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How Phyllo Pastry Is Made In Greece | Regional Eats
My man was ready to fight about his pastry being compared to croissants
True, here in Greece we take pride in our cuisine (and to be honest I also cringed a little when she compared it to croissant, cause every single thing between the two is different)
reminds me of "if my grandma has a wheels she would be a bicycle"
Croissants in comparison is so easy to make! Which is why hand made phyllo is dying skill. I would be mad too! You could use same technique really, but you wouldn't get the paper thin results achieved by hand stretching each one individually.
Do you have a time stamp? Can't find the comparison...
That's only because it's really no similarities between these two
Claudia has matching shirt, jeans, and face mask all in Greek blue. Well done costume department!
I think thats just her lol
And earrings!
I don't know.
Perhaps it's an ethnicity marker. 😜
Italians are so elegant and sophisticated!
Jay Leno has been doing this for years.
As a greek from Thessaloniki this video really hit home for me, thank you so much for making this😄
And the fact that Claudia is wearing all blue in the video(blue is a color integrated deeply within greek culture) makes this even more heart-warming
Grazie Claudia!
@Zakaria Ali you can eat it with cheese or spinach as well
@Zakaria Ali there are sweet options too with custard and cocoa
@Zakaria Ali it's sweat custard. Also available in spinach and feta cheese. I learned the recipe from Greek chef Akis Petreztikis, he has English and Greek RUclips channel. He has recipe to make the phyllo pastry, you'll need a Lot of olive old!
Please don't let this art disappear, let's hope the bakers teach it to the younger people.....
aspiring greek trying to start his own greek bougatsa spot soon.
Lived in Greece back in the 90's, many warm memories of taking the overnight ferry from Piraeus to Chania and disembarking in the cold morning grabbing a bougatsa and a strong greek coffee at the piers
Filipo is exactly how imagine every professional chef on Earth to be. Super talented, super passionate, defends his food with immense jealousy, and gets slightly annoyed when people make inaccurate remarks but does his best not to show it.
Bougatsa with cream and chocolate milk was my childhood. I'd eat bougatsa 2-3 times a week back in the day.
and onother 2-3 in the toilet 🤣
I love listening to them communicate with each other; their voices meld so beautifully 😌
What an awesome traditional food! I hope this tradition will be carried on for more generations to enjoy
Probably not because people in Greece(especially the very young ones) doesn't care about tradition. I m not trying to be conservative, but greek tradition isn't to be thrown in the trash. Traditional music and food, especially when they are made in a more modern way, are wonderful. But the young ones are always attracted to the american way of living
As a northern Greek, bougatsa is definitely my favourite pastry, be it sweet or savoury. So people, if you have the chance to try some good one, definitely do it, it's a very unique experience. A crunchy, nicely greasy layer of fyllo, accompanied with the nice warm filling is a very satisfying sensation. Always with chocolate milk, of course! 😅
We waited for a Greek video for a long time.
Literally on the other side of the world in Indonesia and Malaysia, you can actually find the similar pastry call 'Roti Canai'. Literally the same way it's being made, except we enjoy it as lunch or anytime snacks by putting different ingredients inside ☺️☺️
Big difference is its made with lots of olive oil and butter in Crete. It's the first time I see margarine involved. Maybe his Turkish background 🤔. I tried it in every city/town I visited in turkey 🇹🇷 in 2019, I think it's made with olive oil since olive oil is cheaper in the Mediterranean
Cinematography and music on this video were the best out of all the seasons so far. Keep it up.
Food insider with Claudia is my absolute favorite food “show” on RUclips. Showing the traditional cuisine without extra fuss or insane editing, is the best.
Seeing how it was made was awesome. Thirty two layers is impressive
We love this episode . Make more videos with Greek products .
Love claudia! her voice makes the videos much more enjoyable
Wow! Amazing technique & craft. I hope that this tradition is passed on. Machines can't replicate everything and it's so creative and meaningful.
Love it! I love Claudia, she’s always a great presenter!
Wow!! Love that there are still some bakers that can make the amazingly thin phyllo by hand!!
Beautiful to watch the art and movement of his filo preparation.
Thank you Insider for visiting our town .
Great representation
Hey Claudia ! Another great video! Good job 👏
Cheers from San Diego California
I remember having a Spanakopita with Phyllo before and loved it and now I would love to try this Bougatsa!😛🤤😋 I really love this dress that Claudia is wearing and she is too goregeous! 😍💙🤍
Crying with coeliac disease because I miss pastries and phyllo 😭😖😞😭 this is the power of the protein gluten. It’s bonds are strong and makes breads and pasties fluffy and chewy.
I live with crohns and can relate partly 😪
They sell gluten free flour in the grocery stores. It's about $8 a bag (not almond flour). When I bake things with it and make the flour versions for others in the house, you can't taste the difference.
@@mygoldfishrocks Isn't gluten what makes phyllo hold?
@@Nizazel Usually gluten free flour mixes in supermarkets contain other ingredients to substitute gluten.
just like my ex wife
Another great video by Claudia.
Very nice and educational! Thank you!
Bougatsa just makes my mouth water so bad....it really is the typical and best kind of breakfast to have in northern Greece 🤤 my favorite bougatsa place is in Giannena where they have been making the homemade phyllo for..I think 50 years?
Πολύ ωραίο!
I’m so glad my girlfriend is Spaniard Greek her mom makes me fine Pastry when I came to her house
Claudia, we love your vids 😍
I love your videos✨
If you go to Greece you cannot miss Greek Bougatsa! it is one of the best desserts I have ever tried!
I ❤ it, thank you Claudia
I've never had bougatsa but now I'll have to seek it out! It sounds amazing!
Check your supermarket frozen foods freezer. I found frozen phyllo pastry at my local Albertsons store. Greek chef Akis Petreztikis have English RUclips channel with bugasta and spinach feta cheese recipes, he alsoshowshow to makethe doughin a mixer. I made it 😋
Lovely. I want to try both soft and crunchy versions.
i remember having that when i went to greece last summer.
they r delish like m8...
missed em haven’t had em in ages.
i still remember the taste.
u can have custard or feta cheese inside with this baklava type pastry.
through the whole video I was wondering about his passion and skills till I knew his father's story
keep it up man 💪🏼💜
Lovely
Bougatsa is the yummiest pie of the world😋🤤
너무 맛있어보여서 먹어보고 싶어요~^^
대단한 실력이네요~훌륭해요🥰👍👍👍
영상음악도 좋네요🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍
*Thumbs up for all the delicious and excellent looking food in the video!* 😈👍
Beautiful and amazing. Reminds me of Roti.
Love the accent of the chef
Wow beautiful
Hellas has great looking pastries!
bravo
Good
It looks soo yummy,i really enjoyed to watch this 😋👍 from india (punjab)
The tossing reminds me of “roti canai/paratha” preparation in Malaysia/Singapore
My favority food
Insider Food: ''How Greek do you want your attire to be?''
Claudia: ''Yes''
I would love to go do an apprenticeship with this guy and go live on my mums island and just make bougatsa every morning for the rest of my life 😅😅
Indonesian martabak makers also make their dough thin and throw it in the air like that! So far, yet so similar. Awesome!
Claudia Romeo is my absolute favorite
I'm on a Regional Eats binge and I really need to stop watching this show because it's making me so hungry.
αθανατη ελλαδα.
I'm really loving these videos. It's really cool to learn a lot about the food and culture.
This is really similar to makaysian roti canai/pratha. It’s basically the same, even the spreading technique is similar. we also use margarine or ghee and we eat it with curry or sugar
Bougatsa's roots are from Thesalloniki and Serres, I'm not sure which type I prefer more,yet I'm really grateful that there is a small shop in Athens using the same techniques this man uses. Either sweet or the savory versions are both delicious and it's a pity that nowadays traditional recipes and techniques aren't practiced as much. Tradition is our foundation and roots, that applies to each cuisine and each country, we shouldn't forget that.
It takes such an effort to prepare it. I feel a deep respect for these people. I prefer it savory, tried it few times when I was in Greece, and it was awesome 😋.From an Albanian neighbor. 🙃
@@freudvibes10 I think everything bound to tradition is worth our respect. I remember watching in Paris how croissant is made, it was a really kind, passionate man working in that boulangerie.
But with margarine, as this man uses? This confuses me. Butter has a long tradition and history. Margarine is a more modern invention and it isn’t good for us to consume.
@@Skeptimystic Well butter in an excessive amount isn't good to consume as well. The thing is the margarine that they use is of the best quality and not just the one we found usually in stores. I've asked a friend of mine who works in this business margarine is used when building the layers among the phyllo pastry, in the cream it's 99.9% butter, the cream reminds of a pattiserie cream.
@@ApostolosKatsioulas thanks for explaining. Anything taken to excess isn’t good, either. 😊
❤️ 🇬🇷 from IRAN (Persia)
South Indian and Sri Lankan Parotta uses similar technique of lamination and use of hand swinging methods to strech the dough.. most of them are fried though.. the layers are more similar to this..
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There's a thing called Bugaçe that they only seem to make in one town nowadays in Albania. Bugaçe in Elbasan Albania is sheets of phillo dough folded into a rectangle and then baked with no filling. It is then thrown into what looks like a chinese wok with a bunch of butter in it and fried a little. then they take half a round loaf of bread and fry the top of that in the butter in the wok and then shove the butter fried phillo into the bread. I know it doesn't resemble this other than the use of one big sheet of phillo but I wonder if the name for it comes from this.
I'd love to learn making phyllo by hand from the master himself. It will be a shame to lose that craft.
It looks like baclava, I love the texture of pastry part, but it just too sweet. Fun fact: children don’t normally have a “too sweet” sensation, it develops as you age
Let's goooo
Didn't they make a video about this in the series 'Still Standing'?
👍👍👍
Do a video in Morocco 🇲🇦
1:47 I have the same scale in my kitchen lol
Rodopaki chocolate milk and bougatsa it's like kings breakfast 🤤
egypt have similar one
Its seem hard! But for us Malaysian and Indonesia,almost of us could do the flip easily. In our country,we called roti canai. The process almost the same. Difference is just the time breaking
similar to martabak / murtabak, Indian cuisine that very popular in southeast asia
Fill it with eggs, green onion, and beef. Delicious 😍
There is a version of this bougatsa made in Thessaloniki with grinded meat, onions and spices. We call bougatsa me kima
I would have loved your version /suggestion as well
ima try to make a phyllo pastry pizza
Really steal every thing ......
Nothing was “stolen”. South-Eastern Europe and Turkey and the Middle East have many culinary similarities..
Filo?
It is very similar to roti in Thailand(although it comes from India, I guess).
High end roti canai
Güzel
3:23 Just like how they make paratha in India!
Why do I get the feeling that phyllo would make a good "stand-in" dough for something like when i want to make a sfogliatella...? Has anybody else tried that?
It might work, but the texture is different. Try it, though.
As Indonesian, we call it martabak
They use margarine instead of butter to seperate the layers
Its called Laz Böreği.
The greek-english accent is just soooo common to me because im Greek 😅
I want to make fresh dough
Is this Tyropita?
Tyropita uses phyllo as well but it's not bougatsa
Popping a choccy milk sheesh
reminds me of "roti canai" tossing skills
Philoplasty
With coffee!¡!!!!
When there is claudia romeo, i will watch it🌈💁
meanwhile martabak streetfood in indonesia doing that thing without trouble
Philippos and phyllo. He was destined to be a phyllo maker
But in Greek the name Philipos it's an ancient name like the father of Alexander the great ant it literally means friend of horses (someone who like horses)
Thats how they make parotta in Tamil Nadu, India
Come to Albania, Claudia we have hand made bugaçe.. etc. All are albanian dishes
Lol
in your dreams maybe...
Tell me the meaning of bugaçe? The etimology of the word dream boy and i will tell you a nightmare!!!!!!
@@elvisponari3481 go to sleep poor albanian boy!!
@@elvisponari3481 it's μπουγάτσα and it's Greek sorry
only a few left, go to malaysia and see roti canai being tossed everyday