DISH RESEARCH · Snack
Bourekas
Also known as: בורקס
Triangular puff pastries filled with feta, kashkaval and ricotta.
About Bourekas
Tori Avey’s cheese bourekas use puff pastry around a filling of feta, kashkaval and ricotta. The source describes puff pastry and filo as established alternatives, with this rendition producing the softer, thicker pastry.
Egg binds the cheeses with salt and black pepper. The pastry is rolled, cut into squares and folded corner to corner around the filling, then sealed into triangles.
An egg-yolk wash coats the surface before baking. Sesame seeds are an optional topping, and the bourekas are served warm; tea is one of the author’s suggested companions.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk, Egg.
Optional additions: Sesame.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Bourekas
Tori Avey’s puff-pastry cheese bourekas.
- Puff pastryBase
- Feta cheeseFilling
- Kashkaval cheeseFilling
- Ricotta cheeseFilling
- EggBinder
- SaltSeasoning
- Black pepperSeasoning
- Egg yolkFinish
- Sesame seedsTopping · Optional
- Nonstick cooking-oil sprayCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- Flour for rollingCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- WaterFinish
- TeaAccompaniment · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Puff pastry: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual94/105 original puffpastry choice, ordinary Wheat identity, complete fat/product formula unknown.
- Feta cheese: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual95 literal dairy feta, Israeli option72.
- Kashkaval cheese: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual96 original cheese selected over extra feta substitute.
- Ricotta cheese: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual97 dairy.
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual98 filling.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual104 expressly blackpepper despite shorter generic99.
- Egg yolk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual100/111 eggwash separate component.
- Sesame seeds (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Sesame source-confirmed. Actual101/112 optional sesame selected over poppy.
- Nonstick cooking-oil spray: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual102/110 actual spray route selected over parchment equipment; botanical/product formula unknown.
- Flour for rolling: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual105 method-only generic flour, cereal unknown separately from named pastry.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual107 optional edge-seal water and111 required eggwash water consolidated.
- Tea (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual71 tea selected over coffee as optional standalone companion; exact brew formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Israel
- IsraelCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Israeli Cuisine
- Israeli CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.