Recently I bought a ready-made burek in the store, and now I decided to cook it myself at home. Burek or burekas is a savory pastry originally from Turkey, which became popular in the countries of the former Ottoman Empire. In Israel, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Montenegro, burek has a different name, but in essence the dish is the same. Bureks come with different fillings of meat, mushroom, vegetable, cheese. For the preparation of burek, thin-thin exhaust unleavened phyllo dough is used. I didn’t have a relationship with phyllo dough, the dough turns out to be too crispy like chips when cooked, so I replace it with puff pastry without yeast.

To prepare a burek with meat, the following ingredients are used.

Before you start cooking, take the dough out of the package and defrost. This usually takes 20-25 minutes.

Let's start with the preparation of the filling.

Grate raw potatoes on a coarse grater.

Either finely chop the onion or chop it in a blender. I preferred the second option.

Minced meat, potatoes, onions mix together.

Add salt, pepper.

Or other seasonings. I added ground beef mix and herb mix.

Roll out the puff pastry into a thin layer in one direction.

It turns out here is such a long and thin canvas.

Comparison of the thickness of the dough unrolled (top) and rolled (bottom).

We spread the filling in the middle of our dough. We distribute it along the entire length of the test.

Carefully roll the dough into a roll. We pinch the open edge so that the roll does not part.

Now we take the form, grease its bottom and edges with olive or vegetable oil. We spread the burek in it with a spiral.

If the length of the roll was not enough to cover the bottom of the entire form, you can make another one and arrange a continuation.

We put the roll in the oven preheated to 220 C for 40 minutes.

We take out the finished burek from the oven and let it cool for 10-15 minutes.

We remove the burek from the mold and cut into portioned pieces.

Serbs, Turks, Bosnians have contributed to the tradition of preparing Turkish burek.

The taste and filling of this thinly rolled dough pie are varied.

Like the method of preparation, they vary in different villages, even families.

Turkish burek is cooked small - for one family.

Or weighty - for sale.

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The dough for the pie is bought or made by yourself. This is a puff yufka, as well as a thin stretched filo. Filo can be made with or without eggs.

For those who are making dough for the first time, the method may seem complicated. But homemade dough is tastier than store bought.

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For the test

For the Yufka test:

• flour - 2 tbsp.;
• water - 100 ml;
• eggs - 2 pcs;
• butter - 100g;
• Salt - a pinch.

For the classic phyllo dough:

For filo pastry without eggs:

• boiled water - 300 ml;
• refined vegetable oil - 6 tbsp. l.;
• wheat flour - 500 gr;
• soda - 0.5 tsp;
• salt - 1 tsp

For the stuffing with minced meat and pumpkin:

• pumpkin - 200 gr;
• minced beef - 500 gr;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• pepper mixture - to taste;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp.

For the chicken and cheese filling:

The composition of the filling with cottage cheese:

• cottage cheese - 400 gr;
• parsley or dill - a bunch;
• yolks - 3 pcs;
• garlic - 3 teeth;
• salt - to taste.

Stuffing with boiled eggs:

• spinach - 1 bunch;
• chicken eggs - 5 pcs;
• salt - to taste.

For the potato filling:

• potatoes - 0.5 kg;
• onion - 2 pcs;
• salt - to taste;
• spices - to taste.

Additional

Additional Ingredients (for brushing and decorating the cake):

• vegetable oil for frying;
• egg (only protein is possible);
• yogurt with egg;
• a pinch of cumin;
• poppy optional;
• a pinch of sesame.

Turkish dish recipe with photo

Cooking technique:

Time for preparing: 25 min.

Preparation time: 15 minutes.

Level: easy.

Watch how to cook berek in Turkish on the video:

From lavash

How to cook Turkish burek from pita bread, you will learn further.

Step-by-step instruction:

Time for preparing: 20 minutes.

Preparation time: 15 minutes.

How to cook Turkish burek from pita bread, you will learn from the video:

How to prepare dough?

Yucca puff pastry making:

1. Leave the butter at room temperature to soften.
2. Sift the flour, collect it in a slide. Drive eggs into the recess, pour water, sprinkle with salt. Put 0.5 tbsp there. butter or spread. In Uzbekistan, a similar dough is made with vegetable oil.
3. Knead the dough. Form a ball, dust it with flour, set aside for 15 minutes.
4. Roll out a ball 2 cm thick. Lubricate the layer with 3 tbsp. oils. Fold the layer with an envelope or roll, again crush into a ball. Knead the dough. Divide it into balls the size of tennis balls.
5. Roll out each ball thinly. As soon as the layers dry a little, you can fill them.

Time for preparing: 1 hour.

Difficulty level: average.

Proper preparation of puff pastry, see the video:

Classic Phyllo Dough Technique:

1. Separate the yolks from the whites. Put the yolks in warm boiled water. Proteins will come in handy for other dishes, such as meringue or biscuit.
2. Pour salt here, pour table vinegar. Mix everything thoroughly.
3. Sift the flour. Collect it in a slide, but not all at once. Leave no bedding. You never know exactly how much flour a liquid will take. It depends on the dryness of the flour and the size of the eggs. Make a hole at the top of the hill. Gradually pour in the resulting liquid, alternating it with vegetable oil. Sprinkle with flour, stir lightly and add again.
4. Knead the dough, adding flour if it is runny.
   The dough must be beaten off. Raise the wad above the work surface and throw it down. And so 40-50 times.

   Interestingly, in Japan they often do not beat the dough, but knead it with their feet. The dough is placed in a bag, covered with a towel and stomped.

5. Wrap the dough with foil. Place it in a warm place - on a radiator or near an open preheated oven. After an hour, start rolling.
6. Roll out the whole dough with a sausage, cut into 12 pieces. Roll out on a clean kitchen towel sprinkled with flour. Waffle is not good. Roll each piece until transparent, until you can see the fabric through it.
7. Now the dough should be stretched in all directions. It is convenient to throw it on bent hands. We move our hands under the dough, as if juggling it. Turn the dough over and stretch again. Trim the edges with a knife.
8. Separate each sheet of phyllo from the next by lining with parchment paper.
9. Roll a stack of sheets into a tube, wrap with a damp towel.
10. This dough can be frozen and stored in the freezer for up to 3 months.

    Attention! The dough needs to be defrosted for a long time, work with it carefully. It becomes brittle.

Filo cooking time: 40 min.

Preparation time: 1 hour 20 min.

Difficulty level: average.

This video will help you make filo dough at home.

Filo dough without eggs is prepared as follows:

1. Pour oil into warm water.
2. Sift flour, make a slide.
3. Dissolve baking soda in water and butter and stir into flour. If you are used to not pouring liquid into flour, but, on the contrary, mixing flour into liquid, do so. It does not affect the result.
4. Next, beat the dough. Divide into 6-12 balls. We cover the bowl with balls with cling film, send it to the refrigerator for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
5. Roll out the dough as directed in the recipe for classic phyllo dough.

Filo cooking time: 40-60 min.

Preparation time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Filling technique

With minced meat and pumpkin

Difficulty level: simple.

Time for preparing: 30 min.

With chicken and cheese

Time for preparing: 20 minutes.

Preparation time: depends on the chicken - home cooked takes longer.

Difficulty level: simple.

With cottage cheese

Time for preparing: 15 minutes.

Difficulty level: very simple.

With chicken eggs

1. Eggs wash, boil, peel, chop.
2. Rinse spinach, chop, mix with eggs, salt.

Time for preparing: 10 minutes.

Difficulty level: very simple.

With potato

Time for preparing: 30 min.

Difficulty level: simple.

Serve burek warm, cut into portions.

Turkish burek is delicious to eat with yoghurt lassi. For this drink, slightly dilute fat-free yogurt with water, add a pinch of sea salt, a couple of basil and mint leaves and a slice of lime without skin. We beat everything with a blender.

Tips and tricks for housewives to help make the dish tastier and more varied:

• you can add dill or parsley to any minced meat;
• add crushed walnut kernels fried in vegetable oil and mixed with herbs to minced meat or chicken;
• put a few pieces of butter on the finished hot cake;
• brush each sheet of dough with salted and peppered yogurt with egg before putting the filling;
• form cigar-shaped rolls from the dough with the filling and fry them in hot vegetable oil in a frying pan.

Change the filling, use different types of dough, add your favorite greens and spices, make pies of different shapes. You will get your own excellent versions of this delicious pie.

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Friends, the Turkish burek is one that is spirally formed in the form of a large twisted snail. This article will tell you how to cook Turkish burek with minced meat for tea.

As a basis, I used real filo dough, for those who are interested, you can find the recipe for its preparation. You can invite not only your family, but also guests to such a tea party, because a Turkish pie can be made of any size!

Turkish bureks

The recipe for a delicate and delicious Turkish pastry called burek has a lot of variations. And today this cake in Turkey is a real national tradition. The dish can generally be considered a "conqueror and conqueror" of many peoples.

Traditionally, Turkish burek is made from thin, tissue paper-like filo dough, which is very laborious to make. Therefore, many Turkish housewives simplify their work and buy the basis for pies in stores.

By the way, in our large supermarkets this type of dough is now on sale. In addition, modern women have generally made their work easier to a minimum and use unleavened puff pastry or thin.

The filling for a Turkish pie can be very different: it includes assorted vegetables, cheese with herbs, meat with onions, and much more. Today we will focus on the last option and cook a delicious and satisfying Turkish burek with meat.

Meat for the pie is better to take with fatty layers. If it is dry, then it is recommended to put butter in minced meat for greater juiciness. And now let's get down to considering how to cook Turkish burek, the recipe for your convenience is presented in step-by-step photographs.

• Phyllo dough - 300 g
• Pork - 500 g
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Eggs - 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste
• Ground pepper - to taste
• Any seasonings for meat - to taste

How to cook Turkish burek, recipe with photo

1. We clean the meat from the film, rinse and dry it with a paper towel. We clean and wash the bulb. We twist the products through the middle grate of the meat grinder. In minced meat, add peeled garlic cloves, passed through a press. Salt, pepper and add spices. Mix the stuffing well. It is more convenient to do it by hand.
   
   

   Tip: If the meat is lean, then add butter or olive oil - so the cake will be juicier.

2. Roll out the phyllo dough very thinly, and then stretch it with your hands so that the sheet is transparent. Spread it on the countertop and lay out the minced meat along one edge in the form of a long sausage with a diameter of 2.5-3 cm, as can be seen in the photo.
   
3. Gently roll up the dough.
   
4. Next, we will form a burek with our hands. We twist the roll spirally and place it on a baking sheet, which we first grease with a thin layer of olive oil.
   
   

   Tip: if you put a silicone mat on the baking sheet, then the baking sheet will not need to be lubricated - the cake will not stick to it.

5. We will continue to roll the meat filling into rolls, layering them in the form of a snail.
   

   The pie can be of any size, the main thing is that it fits on a baking sheet =).

   
   

6. Crack an egg into a small bowl and stir it with a silicone brush.
   
7. Brush generously with egg. If it remains, then just pour on top. Also, the cake is poured with cream, they will also give a beautiful golden crust.
   
   

   Tip: For spice, you can sprinkle the product with sesame seeds. By the way, in the Turkish original, sesame is used for this recipe. Therefore, it will not be redundant.

8. We heat the oven to 180 degrees and send the product to bake for 30-40 minutes.
   

   Readiness look at its color. When the cake has a beautiful golden hue, it can be removed from the oven.

   
   

Turkish burek is ready, serve it hot freshly baked. With this pie you can heartily feed the whole family for dinner!

Happy tea everyone!

Turkish burek video recipe

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Today we will learn how to cook Turkish bureks. You will find a recipe with meat or minced meat in this article. We will also give detailed instructions for preparing other types of burek. After all, there are countless variations of this. It doesn't even always have the appearance of a pie made from sausage rolled up by a snake from pastry with a filling. There is also a cigar-burek. This Turkish dish is often compared to Italian lasagna. The most difficult thing in cooking burek (it is more correct to call the pie by borek) is the dough. It is called "yufka". For some types of berek, filo dough is used. Since they are all very laborious, Turkish housewives do not bother themselves much and buy the base for pies in stores. But sometimes they prepare the dough for berek themselves. We will tell you how to make a yufka. And for the lazy, let's reveal a secret: the dough can be replaced with thin Armenian lavash. But it is suitable only for some types of berek. For other varieties, you can use ready-made puff pastry.

Yufka

Let's start, of course, with the base, the dough, which forms the burek. The traditional Turkish recipe suggests preparing yufka from two glasses of flour, one hundred milliliters of water, two eggs, salt and a small amount of butter (spread can be used), which must first be melted. You need to be patient. Sift the flour into a deep bowl, make a depression at the top of the hill. We drive in eggs, pour in water, salt. Add half a spoonful of oil. Thoroughly knead the dough, sprinkle with flour and let stand for a quarter of an hour. Then roll out into a layer two centimeters thick. Lubricate with 3 tablespoons of oil. We cut the layer into three parts, put them on top of each other and roll out again. Grease again with 3 tablespoons of oil. Again, cut into three parts, which we put one on top of the other. We knead for a few minutes and form koloboks the size of a tennis ball. We roll each one very thinly to make a circle sixty centimeters in diameter. Now you need to let the yufka dry a little.

Su berek

There is a type of dish that is very similar to lasagna. It is called "water burek". The Turkish recipe also offers the dough for it to be made according to the principle of lasagna. To do this, add four eggs and half a glass of salted water to 640 grams of sifted flour. Knead elastic smooth dough, adding vegetable oil. We divide it into several parts. One of them must be larger than the others. Let the dough rest for half an hour under a towel. We roll out all the parts into very thin layers. We spread the largest in a mold greased with vegetable oil. The edges of the dough should protrude significantly beyond the edges of this baking sheet or pan. Boil salted water in a saucepan and boil each layer for a minute. We'll dry it on a towel. Because of the cooking process, such a dish, regardless of its filling, is called a water berek.

Pie shaping

For example, let's make the simplest filling. Mash four hundred grams of Turkish cheese with a bunch of finely chopped parsley. If the cottage cheese is very dry, you can add a little natural yogurt. Now we form our burek with cheese and herbs. The culinary recipe prescribes to grease a large sheet of dough (which is not boiled and is already covered in vegetable oil. We put half of the smaller layers on it. We also smear each with oil. Put half of the filling. Level it, sprinkle with oil. Place the remaining boiled layers of dough on top. Each shift with filling and lubricate with oil. We select the hanging edges of the large lower layer, throwing them up. Lubricate the product with egg yolk and vegetable oil. Bake until golden brown over moderate heat.

Burek Cigar (Turkish Dish): A Step-by-Step Recipe

The dish owes its name to the shape. This is not a pie, but tortillas rolled up in the form of a Cuban cigar. They are served as a snack with beer in Turkish bars. The classic filling for "cigars" is cheese with dill. This Turkish burek recipe suggests cooking from filo pastry. But we will replace it with ready-made Armenian lavash. We are preparing the stuffing. Cheese or 450 grams of salted cottage cheese knead with a fork. Add three yolks, a finely chopped bunch of dill, a clove or two chopped garlic. We beat the whites. Lavash cut into squares about ten centimeters long. Put a spoonful of stuffing on each piece from the edge. We roll the cigar. Wet the outer side of the square with whipped protein so that the dough does not unfold. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the cigars until golden brown. Place on paper towels to drain the oil.

Borek with spinach

Cigars, of course, are very original. But tourists who have visited Turkey remember more the snail-shaped pie. Having two layers of yufka, it is very easy to cook such a burek at home. The Turkish recipe allows you to make this dish with a variety of fillings. The most popular are potato and spinach pies. Let's make the last one. The filling is super easy to prepare. We cut four hundred grams of spinach and a large onion. Salt, season with black and red pepper to taste. lubricate with vegetable oil. We turn on the oven at 180 ° C. In a separate bowl, mix half a glass of water with four tablespoons of vegetable oil. This is necessary for impregnation of the dough. We cut the layer of yufka in half. Lubricate each part with impregnation. We spread the filling around the edge. We roll the dough into a roll. We put it in a baking dish in the shape of a snail. We do the same with the second half. We fasten both parts with impregnation. Drive the yolk into the remaining oily water. Lubricate the top of the product with the mixture. If desired, you can sprinkle with seeds (cumin, sesame). Bake for about forty minutes.

Turkish bureks: recipe with meat

This dish can be made both in the form of a snail and in the form of a covered pie. There is another option for the lazy: filling in pita bread. Knowing how to cook yufka or having filo (called blatterteig in Austria for strudel) on hand, you might think that this Turkish dish is easy to prepare. Burek recipe of a Muslim country recommends making from ground beef. Pork, firstly, is not halal, and secondly, it gives a lot of juice. And in the pie, he is useless to us. First, roast two tablespoons of crushed walnut kernels in a dry frying pan. Let's put them on a plate. Then add oil and fry finely chopped large onion. Add half a kilo of minced meat. Salt, pepper. We bring to readiness and evaporation of the liquid. Add a small bunch of parsley. Fry for another two minutes and knead with nuts. Now we are preparing the filling. Mix half a glass of natural yogurt and water, an egg and 70 ml of vegetable oil. Lubricate the form with vegetable oil. We take three layers of yufka. Using a brush, grease them with a fill. We lay out the layer in the form. Sprinkle the filling on top. I put another layer. And again stuffing. The dough should be on top. In the remaining yogurt, break the egg and grease the product. We send it to a preheated oven. Burek will swell at first, but then settle down.

Another way to shape a pie

You can do it differently with the yufka. We put three layers of dough in a greased baking dish at once. Naturally, all of them should be well smeared with filling. Place a third of the filling in the center. We cover it with the edges of the upper layer. Then lay out another third. Again wrap the middle layer of dough. Once again, the filling and on top - the edges of the lower layer. Lubricate with a mixture of eggs and yogurt. We bake.

With chicken

Many people like the classic Turkish burek rolled up by a snail. The recipe with chicken allows you to give the pie this shape. This meat is dryish, and the tubules will not spread. We prepare the filling of boiled chicken and parsley. Cut puff pastry into long narrow strips. Put the filling in the middle. We pinch the dough. We roll the sausages with a snail in a baking dish, covered with baking paper. The oven should be well preheated to two hundred degrees. We bake for about half an hour. Turn off the oven and put a few small pieces of butter on the snail.

Filling Recipes

What is not put in the bereks! And spinach (both solo and with boiled chopped eggs), and minced meat, and leeks, and potatoes. As for the shape of the pie, here we see a variety. There is a puff-berek - pies in the form of a crescent. Small portioned snails, "cigars", "pizzas" are also prepared. But the classic Turkish burek with cheese remains popular with tourists. The recipe for its filling is simple. Knead the cheese with chopped herbs (dill, parsley). What do you think of this stuffing recipe? We mix equally white and yellow cheeses (feta and, for example, Dutch) - two hundred grams each. Add finely chopped dill and green onions. Squeeze out two cloves of garlic. To make the mass a little viscous, add sour cream or yogurt.

Calories: Not specified
Time for preparing: Not specified

This dish is sure to please your household, especially men. It is understandable - after all, the burek is very appetizing, juicy and satisfying. It can be prepared as a separate appetizer or main hot dish and served with a light lunch.
For such an appetizer, you need to have puff pastry (the easiest way is to buy ready-made, but there are simple recipes that you can use to cook it yourself). But the filling for burek is minced meat mixed with finely chopped onions. Moreover, you can take any meat for minced meat: a more tender filling will turn out from poultry meat, more satisfying and fatty from pork, and lean and fragrant from veal.
The cooking technology of the dish is simple, you just need to properly form the product. And for this, the roll with meat filling must be rolled into a round shape with a snail, pour over the egg mixture and then cook it in the oven. A recipe with a photo will help you understand all the intricacies of the process of making burek with meat.

- dough (puff) - 500 g,
- minced meat (mixed) - 500 g,
- turnip onion - 1 pc.,
- fine salt - 0.5 tsp,
- spices - to taste,
- chicken egg - 1 pc.

How to cook with a photo step by step

First of all, defrost puff pastry to make it easier to work with. And after that, we roll it out with a rolling pin quite thinly to make a large long layer.




Finely chop the peeled onion.




Mix minced meat with onion






salt and seasonings, (you can optionally add finely chopped cilantro or parsley).




Place the minced meat on the dough in an even layer.




Next, very carefully, so as not to tear the dough, twist it into a roll.
After that, we lay a long roll in the prepared form in a spiral, starting from the center.






We smear the top of the burek with a loose egg to make a beautiful crust.




Cooking burek in the oven for 1.5 hours at a temperature of 220 ° C.
Then we take it out of the mold, sprinkle it a little with water and cover with a napkin for 10 minutes.




We cut the finished burek and serve it to the table.
Bon appetit!

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