A New Israeli Bourekas
A super-crunchy bourekas made from croissant dough, with a savory filling.
A super-crunchy bourekas made from croissant dough, with a savory filling.
In Israel these pastries are called “snails”, “Turkish bourekas” Or “boyoz”. This pastry made of paper-thin dough, rolled around a filling and then twisted into a spiral. Some fill it with cheese, others with eggplants, but the most popular and beloved version is with spinach, like in this delicious recipe.
What is your favorite bourekas? Most Israeli children are likely to answer: pizza. The Turks would not necessarily approve of the Israeli pizza-flavored filling, but Israelis know what they like, and the pizza bourekas has become a local icon. As a hybrid created in the 1980s, it combines the best of everything — pizza tomato sauce, melting cheese, and sometimes green olives.
Recipe for Michael Gartofsky’s water bourekas (su börek) made of layers of delicate, paper-thin dough, stuffed with leeks and herbs, and served with buttery crab meat on top.
This dish is not simple to make, yet the resulting pastry, crunchy on the outside and rich in fluffy layers on the inside, is well worth the effort
In the 1970s and 1980s, a new star burst into Israel’s wedding venues: bourekas filled with minced meat.
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The following recipe is simple, quick and suitable for the summer, when kara and zucchini are in season.