How to make filo dough

Instructions

• Sift plain flour into a large bowl and add 1 teaspoon of salt into the flour mixture.
  
• Mix flour and salt ingredients.
• Combine lemon and soda water into the flour mixture (zest of 1 lemon optional) and mix ingredients.
• Slowly add lukewarm water to the mixture whilst mixing and kneading ingredients/dough until dough begins to come together.
• Rest the dough for 15 minutes, covering the bowl with a kitchen towel. Once the dough has rested – the dough should be elastic in texture.
• Roll out dough, cutting into equal portions (approx. 5 cm wide – 6 pieces), rolling out each portion in flour and returning to bowl dusting tops of dough with flour.
• Allow dough to rest for a further 10 minutes, covering the bowl with a towel.
• Roll out individual dough pieces, flattening out into a flat round shape (for each dough piece).
• Grease pan with olive oil.
• Place each dough piece in pan, applying olive oil to the top of each piece of dough.
• Allow dough to rest for 10 minutes before use.