Puffed Börek

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

Puf Böreği

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

Asia
Turkey
Snack
Mediterranean

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