Turkish Karakoy Borek

This historical Turkish delicacy will bring the scents of an Ottoman bakery into your kitchen! Happy cooking!

• Difficulty: Medium
• Category: Floury Things, Main Dishes
• Cuisine: Turkish

Ingredients

• 3 Phyllo dough sheets

For Filling

• 500 g Minced meat
• Onion (Diced)
• 3 tbsp Olive oil
• 100 ml Mineral water (Sparkling)

For Filling Sauce

• 1 Egg
• 75 ml Vegetable oil
• 75 ml Milk
• 2 tbsp Yoghurt
• 1 tsp Salt
• 2 tsp Vinegar

For Covering

• 2 Egg yolk
• 1 tsp Granulated sugar
• 2 tbsp Olive oil

Instructions

For Filling

1. Place the diced onion and minced meat on a pan. Pour the olive oil on top and turn the heat on.
2. Stir often and cook until the meat takes a dark brown color. Turn the burner off and let the meat rest and cool down.
3. Add the mineral water on top of the meat and mix it throughly.

For Filling Sauce

4. Mix the eggs, vegetable oil, milk, yoghurt, vinegar and salt in a bowl with the help of a whisk.

For Preparing the Borek

5. Take the dough sheets to the counter. Cut the circle sheets into 4 equal parts (quarters).
6. Place on quarter on your counter. Spread some of the fillling sauce onto the sheet evenly with the help of a egg brush.
7. Spread 2 tablespoons of cooked minced meat on the long border of the quarter in a thin line.
8. Start rolling the sheet from the long border and get a rolll of sheet full of the cooked minced meat at the end. Bend the roll without breaking it, to make 3 rows next to each other.
9. Repeat this process for each quarter of sheet.
10. Cover an oven tray with parchment paper and place the borek you prepared on the tray.
11. Preheat the oven at 190 degrees. (turbo mode on)

For Covering Sauce

12. Mix the olive oil, egg yolks and sugar in a small bowl. Brush the mixture on top of the borek with an egg brush.
13. Bake the borek in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes.
14. Bon appetit!