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Börek (Turkish Filled Pastries)

Börek (Turkish Filled Pastries) — a recipes for pastries recipe, 7 ingredients.

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
Scale: ½× – 4× with Plus →
  • Peynirli börek (white cheese filling)
  • Kıymalı börek (minced meat filling)
  • Tavuklu börek (chicken filling)
  • Ispanaklı börek (spinach filling)
  • 2 cups prepared filling (see above)
  • 1 box yufka/phyllo pastry sheets
  • Melted butter or high-quality vegetable oil
Make it lactose-friendly
  • Peynirli börek (white cheese filling) → lactose-free or aged hard cheese (naturally lower lactose)
  • Melted butter or high-quality vegetable oil → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  1. Remove the phyllo sheets from the container. Unfold carefully so as not to break them. Lay them flat and cover with a clean, damp tea towel to prevent them from drying out—this is important.
  2. Working quickly, cut the phyllo into lengthwise thirds (step 1 in the diagram). Lay one of these out and cover the other two with the damp tea towel.
  3. Brush the strip of phyllo with the melted butter. Place a heaped teaspoonful of filling on one end of the strip (step 2 in the diagram).
  4. Fold the right lower corner upward over the filling to form a triangle (step 3 in the diagram).
  5. Now fold the right upper corner over to the left (step 4 in the diagram).
  6. Continue folding in this manner until you reach the end of the strip.
  7. Trim of any excess dough and seal the edges by rubbing a damp finger over the dough and pressing the edge of the triangle where the strip ends.
  8. Fry in oil at 340°F until golden brown or bake at 350°F for 15 minutes.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0