Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, middle-eastern bourekas. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Bourekas are delicious Middle Eastern pastries filled with potatoes, mushrooms, cheese, or meat. You will find these stuffed pastries in Israel and throughout the Middle East. They may have originated in Turkey, or been brought by Sephardi Jews from Spain. Season with parsley, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
Middle-Eastern Bourekas is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Middle-Eastern Bourekas is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have middle-eastern bourekas using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Middle-Eastern Bourekas:
- Prepare Pre-made puff pastry
- Make ready 350 g cream cheese
- Get 150 g red leicester, grated
- Make ready 150 g cheddar, grated
- Make ready 150 g edam, grated
- Get 2 eggs
- Take Sesame seeds
- Take Poppy seeds
Different versions of this turnover pastry exist all over the world—knishes, calzones, samosas, bridies, and strudel are all regional variations on the same concept. Bourekas, also known as borek in some countries are stuffed pastries throughout the Middle East from Turkey to Israel. They are most often stuffed with savory fillings. Usually stuffed inside a short cut pastry or phyllo dough, I did a short cut adapted version by using store bought puff pastry.
Instructions to make Middle-Eastern Bourekas:
- Roll out the puff pastry on a floured surface until about the thickness of a penny.
- Cut out even squares of pastry, around 15cm wide.
- Combine the cheese and 1 egg. Spoon this mixture on to the squares of pastry.
- Fold over the corner on one side to meet the other and bind with a wet finger. Press together with a fork.
- Brush the tops with the other egg, whisked. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and poppy seeds.
- Bake at 180C for 30 minutes, until golden brown.
They are most often stuffed with savory fillings. Usually stuffed inside a short cut pastry or phyllo dough, I did a short cut adapted version by using store bought puff pastry. Like their Turkish namesake the borek, Israeli bourekas may be filled with a wide variety of filings, though simple cheese or potato bourekas are especially popular. Last week I decided to make a meat dish as well: a simple Middle Eastern food called bourekas. These filled puff pastry pockets, parcels or triangles are eaten in many countries, from Turkey to Bosnia, and are very popular here in Israel.
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