christmas savoury strudel

How To Make christmas savoury strudel

• Step 1
  Heat the oil in a fairly large saucepan, add the onions and cook them, with the lid on the pan, for about 10 minutes, until they are tender but not browned.
• Step 2
  Add the garlic, the tomatoes together with their liquid, the basil and the wine.
• Step 3
  Let the mixture simmer gently without a lid on the pan, stirring from time to time, until the liquid has disappeared and it is quite thick - this will take about 20 minutes.
• Step 4
  Add the mushrooms and cook for a further 5 minutes or so, or until the mushrooms are tender and any liquid which they make has boiled away.
• Step 5
  Remove from the heat and season to taste.
• Step 6
  When the filling mixture has cooled, you can assemble the strudel, which can then be cooked straight away, or kept in the fridge for a few hours until you\'re ready, or in the freezer for at least a month.
• Step 7
  Preheat the oven to 400.
• Step 8
  If you have the type of phyllo pastry which is long and narrow - about 12 x 8 inches - lay two sheets side by side, overlapping them slightly where they join.
• Step 9
  If you have the type which is quite large - about 12 inches or so square - lay out one sheet.
• Step 10
  Either way, brush the surface with a little melted butter and then sprinkle with a third of the nuts.
• Step 11
  Put another layer of phyllo pastry on top, brush with butter, and scatter with nuts.
• Step 12
  Repeat with another layer, then a final layer of phyllo pastry, which you just brush with butter.
• Step 13
  Now tip the tomato filling mixture on top and spread it to about 1 inch of the edges.
• Step 14
  Fold the edges over, to enclose the edge of the filling then, starting from one of the widest edges, roll the whole thing up like a Swiss Roll, trying not to let it break.
• Step 15
  Brush with melted butter and garnish with some shreds or shapes of phyllo pastry.
• Step 16
  Put the strudel into the oven and bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown.
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