Turkish borek is a delicious stuffed snack loves to eat every time. It is a variant snack prepared with all purpose flour dough and are stuffed with chicken- vegetable masala. You can use any masala of your choice for stuffing. It is a variant recipe that usual snacks, lets have a try on it.
INGREDIENTS FOR PREPARATION
For Dough
- All purpose flour: 2 cup
- Yogurt: 2 tbs
- Butter: 2 tbs
- Salt: 1 tsp
- Water: for kneading
- Cooked Chicken: 1 cup
- Carrot: 1(finely chopped
- Cabbage: 1/2 cup(finely chopped)
- Soy sauce:1 tsp
- Chilly sauce: 1 tsp
- Black pepper powder: 1 tsp
- Vinegar: 1 tsp
- Oil: 2 tbs
- Egg:1
- Salt: to taste
- Thyme leaves: little
- Mix all purpose flour, butter, yogurt and salt all together in a bowl.
- Knead it to a smooth dough by adding water little by little.
- Cover the dough with a damp cloth for 15 minutes.
- By the time we can prepare the filling.
- Heat oil in a pan and sauce finely chopped carrot and cabbage in it.
- Now add cooked and shredded chicken to it.
- Season it with soy sauce, chilly sauce, pepper powder, vinegar and salt.
- Mix well and remove it from flame
- Now divide the dough into 9 equal parts.
- Roll each ball into thin circles.
- Now take three circles, place one overlapping the other( 1/4 th of first is covered by the second circle and 1/4 of second is covered by third. such a way we will get a long sheet.)
- Divide the filling into 3 equal part and place one part of the above prepared long sheet.
- Now roll the three sheets together like swiss rolls.
- Repeat the steps for each 3 sheets.
- Such a way we will get three long rolls.
- Grease a frying pan we are using for cooking borek, roll the first filled roll to form a circle.
- From its end start rolling second one.
- Roll the third one from the end of second one and stick the last end.
- Beat a egg and pour above the borek.
- Sprinkle chopped thyme leaves on top. You can also use coriander leaves instead.
- Cover the pan and cook in low flame.
- After 10-12 minutes examine the bottom, if it turns to golden, flip turn to other side get cooked.
- It takes 5-7 minutes.
- You can also bake borek in microwave at 200 degree for 20-30 minutes or until it turns golden.
