Easy Homemade Cheese Bourekas Recipe

feta cheese

🥗Healthier: cottage cheese

💰Cheaper: ricotta cheese

Cottage cheese is lower in fat and calories while still providing creaminess.

ricotta cheese

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: cream cheese

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess.

Welcome to the recipe for burekas, a cheese stuffed pastry.

Introduce the ingredients: puff pastry, various cheeses, egg yolk, egg white, water, and tapioca starch.

Measure the weight of granapadano cheese and dust it with tapioca starch.

Mix the granapadano cheese with mascarpone cheese and a soft rind goat cheese.

Add egg yolk to the cheese mixture and reserve a little for the egg wash.

Combine the egg yolk with egg white and water to create the egg wash.

Mix in black pepper to the cheese mixture until smooth.

Roll out the puff pastry into a decent-sized square and cut it into squares.

Apply egg wash to two edges of each square to help seal them.

Place the cheese mixture in the center of each square and fold into triangles.

Press out as much air as possible to seal the edges and avoid blowouts.

Brush the tops with egg wash and generously sprinkle sesame seeds on top.

Place the burekas in the middle of the preheated oven and bake for about 30 minutes.

Check for a beautiful burnished gold color to indicate they are done.

Let the burekas cool slightly before serving.

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