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Burek

Name: Burek
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ingredients: 400g Phyllo Dough; 400g Ground Beef; 2 Onion; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 80ml Sunflower oil; To taste Plain yogurt

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Ground meat wrapped in thin pastry and coiled into a spiral before baking — Bosnia's signature meat pie.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Burek came with the Ottoman Empire and is eaten throughout the Balkans, but in Bosnia 'burek' always means the ground meat version; cheese or spinach versions go by other names. Ground meat and onion are wrapped in paper-thin pastry, coiled into a spiral, and baked. It's classically eaten with drinking yogurt.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a burek shop in Baščaršija, Sarajevo's old town, spiral pie is cut from a big round tray and served with a glass of drinking yogurt.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Phyllo Dough 400g
Ground Beef 400g
Onion 2
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Sunflower oil 80ml
Plain yogurt To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the ground beef with finely chopped onion, salt, and pepper.
Layer 2 sheets of phyllo and brush with oil.
Lay a line of filling along the near edge and roll into a tube.
Coil the tubes into a spiral in a round pan and brush the top with oil.
Bake at 200°C for 35–40 minutes and serve with yogurt.

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