Savoury Cigars

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Preparation info
  • Makes About

    Thirty-Two

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

  • About

Throughout the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Italy and Spain, small savoury pastries have been a hallmark of the Sephardic communities. Each village, town and city has its own version. These pastries are filled with minced lamb or beef, spinach or cheese with herbs and are known as briouats in Morocco. Easy to make, they are always shaped into cigars, though the fillings can be varied to suit individual tastes. The fillings can be prepared ahead of time, but the pa