Lude also showed me how to make mantia. These are what I would describe as mini pita-rolls. We made them stuffed with a meat-onion-paprika filling, but Lude said that they are also tasty with a cheese filling.
Lude made the filling in advance. It had equal volumes of ground meat and onions and was spiced with several spoonfuls of paprika.
For this recipe she made the dough the same way she did for her other pitas (find the recipe here). She made two balls of dough that were the same size and let them rest.
She rolled out one ball and spread some melted margarine around (one could also use butter). Watch her great technique for spreading the margarine around without using a brush.
The circle of dough was then folded in half, and rectangle-sized pieces were cut out. The average piece measured about 2 x 3 inches. I didn't get any good video of how to roll these up so let me try to explain. Once the filling has been placed in one stretched end of your piece of dough, hold the filled edge of your piece in one hand (in your left hand if you're right handed). Then with your other hand stretch and pull open the dough that is closest to the filling and then roll the filling into the stretched out dough. Continue until you had reached the end of your piece.
Look at those fine layers of phyllo!
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