Börek is a family of baked filled pastries made of a thin flaky dough such as phyllo or yufka, typically filled with meat. It is found in the cuisines of Western Asia, the Balkans, the South Caucasus, the Levant, Central Asia, and other parts of Eastern Europe.
Borek has many shapes and stuffed with different filling like chicken, meat, cheese and herbs. can be baked or fried also.
Today I am sharing with you a recipe for borek (burek) filled with meat.
Ingredients:
500 g - filo (phylo) pastry pack
ground lamb ( or beef) - 500 g
onion - 2 pieces ( 1 cup)
salt & black pepper - to taste
cinnamon - 1/2 teaspoon
1/3 teaspoon - cumin
1/2 teaspoon - paprika
1/2 teaspoon - coriander
1-2 tbsp. - vegetable oil
Brushing filo (phylo) pastry
50 g butter (melted)
1 egg
180 ml milk
1. Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat, add the onion and after 1-2 minute the lamb meat( or beef) cook for few minutes until the meat just cooked through. Add the green onion and remove from heat. leave to cool down.
2. Prepair the brushing mixture for phylo dough. Add to a bowl egg, melted butter and milk, salt and black pepper. combine well all together and set aside.
3. Phylo pastry usually sold frozen, take it out from the freezer before 30 minutes. Let it defrost before work with it.
4. take 2 leaves of phylo dough, on a flat surface place first leaf and brush it with butter mixture, place on top the second leaf of dough and again brush it with butter mixture. place the filling for Borek and roll it like a saggars. Just same like shown on the video.
5. preheat the oven to 180 C (360C) place the rolled borek in a baking tray. Brush with left over butter mixture. Bake on a medium rank for 35-40 mins till done and having golden color.
Enjoy!
Borek is great for parties, sharing tables and friendly for school lunch boxes!
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7 окт 2024
