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Rolled Pastry with Spinach and Feta
Ispanakli Kol Böreği
- Serves
8
- Difficulty
Medium
By David Dale and Somer Sivrioglu
Published 2015
The Turkish word kol means ‘arm’, and presumably gets into the Turkish name for this börek because each roll of pastry is bent to look like an arm coming round to hug you. It would make more sense to call this a spiral or a labyrinth, since that is how it looks when all the arms are linked together.
My maternal grandma, who came from Yugoslavia, was a master of the ‘arm börek’, and she made giant spirals to feed a large family. In later life, she used
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Good flavours, although I reduced the amount of salt to 1 teaspoon. 3 teaspoons (1T) along with the feta would have been way to salty for my palate. Because my packet of Yufka was a bit dry and the pastry sheets crumbled a bit, I couldn't make the rolled version but was able to piece together enough to make gozleme - same thing but folded differently?