Feta cheese brik

Name: Feta cheese brik
Yield: Feeds four
Cuisine: Tunisia
Ingredients: 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley; 1 cup feta cheese; 4 large spring roll wrappers; 1 tsp cornflour mixed with 1 tbsp cold water; vegetable or light olive oil for frying; vegetable or light olive oil for frying; 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander; 1 tsp ground coriander; ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper; 1 tsp sea salt; 1 tsp cornflour mixed with 1 tbsp cold water; ½ tsp ground cumin; 4 free range eggs

Preparation info

Feeds
four

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

Something like a large, flat, failure of a spring roll, a brik is a Tunisian pastry, traditionally made from skin-thin sheets of warkha pastry which take centuries to learn how to make. A packet of Asian spring roll wrappers from an Asian food store freezer, on the other hand, takes only minutes to learn how to open. Hopefully.

Ingredients

4 large spring roll wrappers
1 cup feta cheese
2 tbsp finely chopped

Africa
Tunisia
Pastry
Mediterranean
Breakfast
Vegetarian
Spring

Method

Remove wrappers from freezer 10 minutes prior to cooking. Mash feta cheese with parsley and coriander. Heat oil in a wok or frypan to 2.5 cm (1 in) deep. Mix salt, pepper, coriander and cumin in a small bowl.

Place one spring roll wrapper on workbench. Dip finger in cornflour mixture and ru