Name: Burekas
Yield: Makes 18 small pastries
Cuisine: Israel
Ingredients: 1 tsp sesame seeds; 500 g all-butter puff pastry; 1 medium free-range egg, beaten; 1 tsp caraway seeds; 1 tsp yellow mustard seeds; 1 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley; 1 tsp nigella seeds; 60 g cottage cheese; ½ tsp chilli flakes; 60 g ricotta; 1 leek, cut into 5 cm segments, blanched until tender and finely chopped (80 g in total); 50 g mature Cheddar, grated; 50 g ricotta; 10 g melted unsalted butter; 70 g mature pecorino, grated; 90 feta, crumbled; ½ tsp black pepper

Preparation info

Makes
18
small pastries

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Jerusalem

By Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi

Published 2012

About

Opened in 1959, Burekas Mussa on Jaffa Street is the city’s most popular burekas joint. It is easily recognizable; you simply follow the long queue of hungry mouths waiting patiently (by Israeli standards, that is) for their order of the incredibly greasy flaky pastry filled with a hard-boiled egg, spicy tomato or tahini sauce (see Tahini sauce), with an equally legendary side dish of pickled cucumber.

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