Cigarette Borek
Perhaps the most popular Turkish börek recipe.
Servings 48 boreks
Calories 187kcal
Ingredients
- 4 phyllo sheets / yufka
- 400 grams feta cheese
- 1 egg
- ½ parsley chopped
- 300 milliliters olive oil to fry
Instructions
Filling
- Mince or grate the white cheese into a bowl.
- Wash and chop the parsley and add to the cheese.
- Break an egg and add to the cheese.
- Mix well.
Preparing
- Cigarette boreks should be similar sizes. So cut the phyllo sheets to same sizes.
- Fold a phyllo sheet into two. Cut into half with a knife.
- Put the two halves on top of each other. Cut into half again. Now you have 4 large triangles.
- Put these on top each other again and cut to 3 slices. Now you have 12 triangles. Repeat with other sheets.
- Put about 1 teaspoon of stuffing on the bottom part of the phyllo sheet. Curl a bit from the sides inwards so that the filling does not come out while cooking. Roll upwards till the end like a cigarette.
- Have a little bowl of water handy and on the very end of the rolling dip into the water so that the corner sticks and does not open while frying.
- If you do not want to fry, put the boreks in an oven tray, spread some olive oil on top of each one. Bake until crispy and brownish on all sides at 180° Celsius-pre-heated oven.