Burek Melbourne

Cooking Instructions
:

Burek is to be cooked from frozen
Temperature and cooking time may vary depending on oven.
Grease cooking tray. Remove burek from plastic bag.
Place burek in tray. Cook for approx. 20-25 minutes in
fan forced oven at 200°C. (220°C Non fan forced)
Remove burek from oven, rest for 15 minutes before cutting.
For soft finish, cover burek with damp tea towel during resting time.

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If holding product in bain-marie under lights,
mix 100ml of water, 30ml of veg oil and
tablespoon of salt. Bring to boil.
Spray the top of the burek with hot mixture and
allow resting for 15 min before cutting.

Serving Suggestions:
Burek is a product that can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, or as a snack. The suggestions listed below, are only suggestions, please feel free to put your own touch, and create your own serving ideas. Share your ideas with us and we would love to put them on our website.
The first suggestion i would like to share with everyone is the one my friend Birgul Bal likes, and it is for the savoury Bureks, Spinach, Cheese, Beef, Mushroom.

  • ½ cup greek style yogurt
  • ½ teaspoon of dill, or mint (fresh preferred, dried will do as well),
  • 1 clove of garlic (crushed)
  •  2 tea spoons of extra virgin olive oil

Mix everything together until all flavours are combined; serve with hot or cold burek. I like serving this sauce as a dipping sauce and I like it runny. If you would like the sauce a bit thicker, strain the yogurt for an hour, prior to adding the other ingredients, to release excess water.
If you would like to serve it as dipping sauce for the sweet burek, please skip the garlic, olive oil, and dill, and instead add honey, vanilla sugar and decorate with mint, and walnuts.
The second serving suggestion comes from someone i could not believe would have such culinary artistic ideas, Jim S. I like this idea for the Apple and Cinnamon Burek, and the Sour Cherry. I will use the Sour Cherry Burek to illustrate the example because that is how Jim served it to us.
You will need:

  • Good quality Vanilla Ice-cream
  • 50 gr good quality dark cooking chocolate (you can use milk chocolate as well)
  • 1 teaspoon cognac (optional)
  • 2 teaspoons of cream
  • Sour Cherry Burek (small burek)

Cook the Burek; allow it to rest for 5 minutes before serving. During resting time, melt dark chocolate on bain-marie, once chocolate melted, remove from bain-marie and add cream and cognac. Stir until all ingredients are combined. Place small spiral burek on a plate, add one large scoop of the vanilla ice-cream in the middle of the burek and poor melted chocolate on top of the ice-creammmmmmmmmmmmm!

 








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