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Cheese and Herb Cigar Pastries
Preparation info
- Serves
8
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 2008
Although Moroccan in origin, these pastries (briouats) are popular and readily available in every country of the Middle East. They can be filled with meat or vegetables but I just love them with this cheese filling. Serve them with cocktails or as part of a meze course with salads and falafel.
Ingredients
Method
In a bowl, mix the cheeses together with the mint and season with salt and pepper.
Cut each pastry sheet into two lengths about 12 cm wide and trim the edges (as the sheets are round). Working with a few pastry sheets at a time, keeping the rest covered with a tea towel, lay the sheets on a bench and brush the edges with butter.
With the short end closest to you, spoon the chees