Name: Baked Layered Pastries (Tepsi böreği)
Yield: Serves 4-6
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 8 oz/225 g lean minced veal, or a mixture of beef and lamb; small bunch of fresh parsley and dill, finely chopped; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2-3 cloves garlic, crushed with salt; 1 large onion, finely chopped; knob of butter; ½ pint/300 ml milk; 5 large sheets (10-12 homemade sheets) yufka 2 eggs; ¼ pint/150 ml sunflower or olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Classic Turkish Cooking

By Ghillie Basan

Published 1995

About

A tepsi is a deep round baking dish in which a variety of layered savoury pies, using sheets of yufka, are made. Filo can be used instead of yufka. The most common fillings are made with spinach, white cheese and minced meat. Use the spinach filling from ıspanaklı gözleme and the cheese filling from sigara böreği. This recipe is made with the minced meat filling that can also be used in