Sunday, January 6, 2013

Meat Borek



Ingredients
  • 1/2 package phyllo or Turkish yufka as seen in the pictures
  • 1/2 kg ground meat
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 carrot, grated
  • 1/2 C parsley, chopped
  • 3 Tbs oil
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg, ground
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 C soda water or milk
  • 1 tsp salt
  • a pinch of pepper
  • 1/4 C oil for brushing daugh
Directions for filling
  1. In a small saucepan cook onion until light brown.
  2. Add  ground meat. Cook mixing with a wooden spoon until all liquid has evaporated.
  3. Add 1 beaten egg. Mix well.
  4. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg.
  5. Let the mixture cool
Directions for borek
  1. Oil a baking pan.
  2. Take a sheet of phillo or yufka. Cut yufka into quarters, phyllo in halves. Brush with oil, put some filling on the long edge and roll up like a thick cigar to opposite end.
  3. Start from the center of the pan and roll it like a snake.
  4. Continue rolling each cigar around the previous one until the whole pan is filled.
  5. Whisk soda water or milk with 2 eggs.
  6. Pour the mixture over the borek.
  7. Sprinkle sesame seeds.
  8. Refrigerate it for some hours.
  9. Preheat the oven 190 C.
  10. Bake it for almost 45 minutes, until brown on top and cooked from the bottom.




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