{"id":519,"slug":"borek-turkish-filled-pastries","title":"Börek (Turkish Filled Pastries)","description":"Börek is a general term in Turkish cuisine that applies to a family of pastries with about fifty different members. They have in common the fact that they are all pastry layers of some type enclosing a filling. There are two basic methods; one consists of rolling out very thin sheets of dough, called yufka in Turkish and phyllo in Greek. The other main type of börek, called nemse börek in Turkish, uses a dough very similar to pâte feuilletée, in which the dough is layered with butter, folded, and rolled out several times.","ingredients_raw":["Peynirli börek (white cheese filling)","Kıymalı börek (minced meat filling)","Tavuklu börek (chicken filling)","Ispanaklı börek (spinach filling)","2 cups prepared filling (see above)","1 box yufka/phyllo pastry sheets","Melted butter or high-quality vegetable oil"],"ingredients_norm":["peynirli borek","kıymalı borek","tavuklu borek","ispanaklı borek","prepared filling","yufka/phyllo pastry sheet","butter or high quality vegetable oil"],"steps":["Remove the phyllo sheets from the container. Unfold carefully so as not to break them. Lay them flat and cover with a clean, damp tea towel to prevent them from drying out—this is important.","Working quickly, cut the phyllo into lengthwise thirds (step 1 in the diagram). Lay one of these out and cover the other two with the damp tea towel.","Brush the strip of phyllo with the melted butter. Place a heaped teaspoonful of filling on one end of the strip (step 2 in the diagram).","Fold the right lower corner upward over the filling to form a triangle (step 3 in the diagram).","Now fold the right upper corner over to the left (step 4 in the diagram).","Continue folding in this manner until you reach the end of the strip.","Trim of any excess dough and seal the edges by rubbing a damp finger over the dough and pressing the edge of the triangle where the strip ends.","Fry in oil at 340°F until golden brown or bake at 350°F for 15 minutes."],"categories":["Recipes for pastries","Appetizer recipes","Recipes using cheese","Turkish recipes","Middle Eastern recipes","Deep fried recipes","Baked recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using vegetable oil"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Börek_(Turkish_Filled_Pastries)","source_ref":"4620487","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Börek_(Turkish_Filled_Pastries)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"34d8f4d9daae7167e26e5f689e98a9abb7a0b5d818f08427306a009408c8684c","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:42:57Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/borek-turkish-filled-pastries"}