Bourekas
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Bourekas (Hebrew: בורקס) are a very popular pastry in Israel. They originated from the Balkan cuisine where they are called Burek.
Bourekas are made out of puff pastry filled with various fillings. Among the popular fillings are meat, cheese, potato mash, spinach, eggplant, pizza-flavor, and mushrooms.
Israeli Bourekas come in several shapes, which are indicative of their fillings. The laws of kashrut require avoiding eating dairy pastries together with ones containing meat, so conventional, distinctive shapes are used to indicate different types of fillings. Cheese Bourekas come in right angled and isosceles triangles, and have two different sizes. Potato-filled Bourekas come in a certain box shape. Pizza filled Bourekas resemble a co-centric tower, while spinach filled bourekas resemble a pastry knot. There are also the so-called "Turkish Bourekas" which form rounded equilateral triangles, and are filled with various fillings, whose type can usually be determined by the addition on their outside.
"Bourekas Movies" (Hebrew: סרטי בורקס sirtei burekas) are a type of Israeli movie from the 1970s dealing with certain cultural aspects of Israelis, especially lower-class Mizrahi Israelis and their conflicts with the Ashkenazi establishment. The term is a calque on Spaghetti Western.
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- Authentic bourekas recipe with dough recipe as well
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