# Strudel - Sausage and Mushroom

Author: Richard Slavinsky

### Ingredients

- 1 lb. sweet Italian sausage
- 1 lb. mushrooms
- 4 to 5 scallions
- 2 Tbsp. oil
- 2 Tbsp. butter
- 1 tsp. salt (optional)
- 1/2 tsp. pepper (optional)
- 1 pkg. phyllo dough (you will not need all of it; return remainder to pkg. and put back till needed)
- About 1 stick butter, melted
- About 121​ cups fine bread crumbs (may need more)
- Sour cream (optional)

### Instructions

- Remove casing from sausage and cook over medium heat until browned.
- Break it up into very small pieces and set aside.
- Wash, pat dry, and mince the mushrooms into tiny bits.
- Mince the scallions, the green portions as well as the white.
- Cook the mushrooms and scallions together over low heat in the oil and butter until all the oil and butter disappears, 5 to 10 minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper, if you wish, and combine with sausage. You may find that the mixture has enough seasoning in it as is, just from the seasoned sausage.
- Have phyllo dough defrosted out on your work table.
- It should be covered with a damp (wrung out) cloth to keep the dough from drying out. You will need 4 sheets of dough for each strudel.
- Place a sheet of dough on another cloth and dry one.
- Brush the sheet of dough well with some of the melted butter.
- Sprinkle with a thin layer of fine bread crumbs.
- Add a second sheet of dough, brush with butter, and sprinkle with crumbs.
- Add third layer of dough, brush with butter, and sprinkle with crumbs.
- Repeat with fourth layer, then on top of that, take some of the mushroom scallion sausage filling and place it along the larger side of the dough.
- The filling should fill entire length two inches inward, no more.
- Now, using the towel underneath, roll up dough and tuck in ends.
- Grease a cookie sheet and carefully place roll on sheet, seam side down.
- Brush roll on all sides with melted butter.
- Repeat process once or twice more till filling is used up.
- Using a sharp knife, cut through the strudel halfway in the size portions you wish to serve - smaller for appetizer-size, larger for main course of dinner.
- Bake in preheated 400° oven for 20 minutes.
- Serve hot, as it is, or with sour cream.

> Tip

> Will serve 6 to 12, depending on the size of your slices.