Rolled Pastry with Spinach and Feta

Ispanakli Kol Böreği

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By David Dale and Somer Sivrioglu

Published 2015

  • About

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