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Cheese-Filled Phyllo Pastry (Cigarro Burek)

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Recipe

Throughout the Middle East, bureks are made by folding buttered, cheese-filled phyllo dough into little triangular shapes. Cigarro bureks taste the same but, as the name implies, are rolled into cylindrical shapes resembling small cigars.

 

Yield

40 servings

Prep

30 min

Cook

10 min

Ready

40 min
Low Cholesterol, Trans-fat Free, Low Carb, Sugar-Free, Low Sodium

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
6 ounces feta cheese
crumbled
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4 ounces cream cheese
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1 each eggs
beaten
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2 tablespoons parsley leaves
fresh, chopped
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1 tablespoon dill weed
fresh, chopped or 1 teaspoon dried
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8 each phyllo (filo) pastry sheets
packaged
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½ cup butter
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Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
173.4 ml/g feta cheese
crumbled
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115.6 ml/g cream cheese
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1 each eggs
beaten
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3E+1 ml parsley leaves
fresh, chopped
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15 ml dill weed
fresh, chopped or 1 teaspoon dried
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8 each phyllo (filo) pastry sheets
packaged
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118 ml butter
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Directions

Bureks, frozen unbaked, can go directly from the freezer into a preheated 375℉ (190℃) F oven to make an instant hors d'oeuvre.

Defrost the phyllo dough and return the remainder to the freezer.

Butter a cookie sheet.

Melt the butter and remove from the heat.

Preheat the oven to 375℉ (190℃).

Mix the feta and cream cheese with the egg and herbs and set aside.

Layout one sheet of phyllo dough on a counter.

(Keep the remaining dough covered with a slightly damp towel to prevent its drying out.)

Brush the sheet of dough with some melted butter.

Cut it the short way into 5 strips, about 3x10 inches each.

Place 1½ teaspoons of the filling at one end of each strip.

Roll the strips into cylinders about ½ inch in diameter.

Continue until all of the dough has been cut, filled, and rolled.

Arrange 2 to 3 cylinder per person on the cookie sheet and brush them with more butter.

(Freeze the rest of the cylinders, unbaked, for use at another time.)

Bake for about 10 minutes, or until the cylinders are well browned and very flaky.



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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 10g (0.4 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 3992% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 4g 6%
Saturated Fat 3g 13%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 16mg 5%
Sodium 57mg 2%
Total Carbohydrate 0g 0%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars g
Protein 2g
Vitamin A 3% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 2% Iron 1%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
 

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