Name: Puffed Börek (Puf Böreği)
Yield: To Make 20
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 100 g/3½ oz self-raising flour; 100 g/3½ oz strong plain flour; 250 g/8 oz cooking fat or butter or olive oil or sunflower oil for deep-frying; ½ tsp butter; 50 g/2 oz butter, melted and cooled; 1 quantity meat or cheese filling; 1 tsp salt; 100 ml/3½ oz water; 1 egg; a few drops vinegar

Preparation info

To Make
20

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook

By Nevin Halici

Published 1989

About

This börek is easy to make and can be prepared with a variety of different fillings. Puffed börek is always taken on picnics in Anatolia.

Ingredients

½ tsp butter
1 egg
100 ml/3½

Method

Prepare the börek filling.

To make the dough, melt the butter and pour into a bowl with the egg, water, vinegar and salt. Mix well, add both flours and knead to a smooth dough. Divide into two lumps, place them on a floured tray and allow to rest for 20 minutes under a damp cloth. On a floured pastry board roll out one of the lumps of dough to a thick strip with a long, thin rolling pin