When we lived in Greece we used to head to our secret hideaway beach in Lhourdata at about four in the afternoon to escape the heat. After a tough day of snorkelling and chasing fish we would eat spinach and feta boreks for our lunch.
I used to look at all the many many tourists on the bigger beach further up to us and think aren't we lucky we know how to get here and that they don't!
So I decided to make the apple version and think about secret greek beaches. This one above is ours!
Ingredients:
Cooking Apples - I used about 6 and freezed some of the leftovers
Caster Sugar - roughly 1 oz per apple
Any mixed spices such as cinammon, nutmegMelted butter
Filo pastry (you get 6 sheets in the ones I found in the supermarket)
Warm water and sugar mixed together (this is your glaze)
Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 or 180. Peel and chop the apples and put in a big pan with the sugar, spices and a few tablespoons of water.Stir until it looks like a chunky puree sort of thing.
Take your filo pastry and you have to handle this really carefully or it disintegrates I found out. Take one piece and lay it flat on your board/worktop then fold it in half (so you start with a square and you are folding this in half) so it's doubled up. Brush with melted butter.
Take a tablespoon (or little more than that if you feel greedy) of apple and put it in the left hand bottom corner of the pastry and start to fold in triangles like this...
Keep going until you get to the end and place the pastry on a baking sheet lined with greased greaseproof.
Sprinkle with your sugar water glaze and repeat x 6.
Bake in the oven for about 35ish minutes or until golden brown.
Serve with ice cream!
