Burek
Recipe by:
William Ponissi
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Serves:
4
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Yield:
4 servings
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Ready in:
1 hour
(30 mins
Prep
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30 mins
Cook)
This is a very widespread snack in the Balkans. I've eaten this in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia - Turkey has got something similar too.
Ingredients
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For the pastry:
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500g (1 1/4 lb) plain flour
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25g (1 oz) butter, melted
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salt
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warm water
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For the filling:
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500g (1 1/4 lb) minced veal
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225g (8 oz) beef mince
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4 onions, minced
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25g (1 oz) butter
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2 egg yolks
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salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Preparation method
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4.
- Mix melted butter into the flour, salt and warm water to create a ball of dough. Cut it into 4 parts.
- To prepare the filling, warm the butter and mix it with the meat, onions, yolks and salt and pepper.
- Make a sheet of pastry out of a dough piece and lay it on your table, leaving it to dry for a few minutes.
- Brush the pastry with oil or melted butter, put one fourth of the filling on one side of the sheet and roll it until you get a long roll.
- Get an oven dish and lay the roll you have just got in the shape of a spiral, starting from the middle of the dish. Then, bake for about 30 minutes in the preheated oven.