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Byrek

Name: Byrek
Total time: 80 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Albania
Ingredients: 400g Phyllo Dough; 300g Spinach; 200g Feta Cheese; 2 Egg; 100g Plain yogurt; 3 Green Onion; 80ml Olive oil; A pinch Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Snack

⏱ 80 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin pastry layered with spinach and feta and baked — Albania's breakfast pie.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Byrek is Albania's most familiar snack, and town bakeries called 'byrektore' line up fresh ones from early morning. Fillings vary: spinach and cheese, ground meat, tomato and onion. At home it's baked in a big round tray with many sheets of pastry layered and cut into diamonds. It's classically eaten with dhallë, a drinking yogurt.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning in Tirana, byrek is cut from a round tray at a bakery and wrapped in paper as commuters buy it with drinking yogurt.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Phyllo Dough 400g
Spinach 300g
Feta Cheese 200g
Egg 2
Plain yogurt 100g
Green Onion 3
Olive oil 80ml
Salt A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the spinach, squeeze out the water firmly, and chop.
Mix the spinach, crumbled feta, 1 egg, chopped green onion, and pepper.
Oil a pan and layer half the phyllo sheets, brushing each with oil, then spread the filling.
Layer the remaining sheets the same way and score into diamonds.
Brush the top with 1 egg mixed with yogurt and bake at 190°C for 40 minutes.

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