HOMEMADE PASTRY WITH CHEESE-( SU BÖREĞİ )

Cook time : 20-25 minutes

Level : Medium – Hard

Serve : 12

Hello everyone! Hope everyone had a lovely christmas and new year!  I was busy making this delicious Turkish dish for my family this new year and wanted to share it with you all. It does take a little practice to get it right but it is delicious and healthy. The  handmade flaky pastry really melts in your mouth. It is wonderful  for tea time or snack.

Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

FOR DOUGHT  INGREDIENTS :

4 cup all purpose flour or 2 cup plain flour and 2 cup strong flour .

5 eggs

1/4 water and   1  and 1/2 tsp  Sea salt , mix them .

Place  the flour and crack the  eggs in the middle ,  mix them . Add the salted water and knead well  and make a stiff but pliable dough . Cover  the dough with a clean tea towel  or plastic wrap  and set aside for 15 -20 minutes .

FOR DUSTING INGREDIENTS  ; 1  and 1 /2 cup extra all purpose flour and 1 cup wheat starch  mix in bowl , set aside .

FOR FILLING :

150 gr. butter , 1/2 cup olive oil  , Melt the butter and olive oil , set aside

200 gr. white  cheese   or Feta cheese , grated

50 gr. Mozzarella and 50 gr. Cheddar

1/ 2 bunch parsley  , washed , chopped ,  Mix the cheese and parsley , set aside

DIRECTIONS :

Divide the dough into 8 pieces  and shape  like a disk . Roll the dough with a thin ,long  rolling pin . Roll each piece the same size with the mixed extra flour . Continue to roll until  it is less then a mm  , The sheet  will be larger than your baking tray .  Place them on  your kitchen table , set aside . Place a unboiled pastry sheet in the baking tray and spread lightly with 2-3 tsp the mixed oil , set aside .

Boil 6-9 liter water and add 2 tbsp sea salt and boil for  one minute . Then remove it from the boiling water trying not to tear it . Place it firs in a bowl icy-cold water ,when it is cooled  then remove it from the cold water  to a flat strainer and drain with a clean tea towel or clean paper towel . Then  layer the sheet in the baking tray , brushing 2-3 tsp the  mixed oil  . Do the same with 2 more pieces of the sheet  . Now spread the filling cheese over the  pastry sheet  .

Then take the 4 remaining pieces of dough , prepare them exactly  as you did the others . Sprinkle remaining  the oil over the pastry  sheet  . Place the borek  in  the preheated oven . Bake it until golden yellow on the top  , about 25-30 minutes  .

Bon appetite

Melt the butter and olive oil , for brushing the pastry sheet .

Mix the flour and wheat starch , set aside , for dusting .

FOR DOUGH INGREDIENTS AND DIRECTIONS PICTURES :

Place  an uncooked  pastry sheet in the baking tray and sprinkle the mixed oil , brush it .

Place the pastry sheet in the salted , boiled water .

Cook the pastry sheet for 30-60 second .

Place the cooked pastry sheet in icy water .

Let cool it for 30-50 second .

Place the pastry sheet over the strainer and dry the pastry sheet with a clean paper towel .

Sprinkle the mixed oil with a spoon .

Brush the mixed oil with a pastry brush .

Put the cheese mixture on top of the 4th layer of pastry.

Place the cooked and drained pastry sheet over the cheese .

Sprinkle the mixed oil and brush .

Put the remain mixed oil on top of the last pastry sheet  .