Turkish Cigars | Sigara Borek

Borek is a Turkish pastry with savoury filling. The most common fillings are cheese, meat and spinach. These tasty cheese-filled sigara borek (shaped like cigars) are very easy to make and always a big hit at parties.

Turkish cigars go great with a side of dipping sauce – check out my recipe on Turkish carrot and beetroot dip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuDYZSNNrS8

For the meat version of Sigara Borek, substitute the cheese filling from this video with the mince filling from my Kubba Halab video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk6g2NNVD2Q

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INGREDIENTS
1. Yufka* pastry (24 pieces or 360 g)
2. Greek style feta cheese* 250g
3. One small bunch parsley
4. One egg

TIPS
You can freeze these for frying another day!

*Yufka Pastry is available at your local Turkish grocer.
In Sydney you can find Turkish grocers in Auburn, in Canberra there is a Turkish grocer across DFO in Fyshwick. The pastry I used in the video is pre-cut however traditionally it comes as large circles which you can cut into triangle shapes yourself.
If you can’t find Yufka you can use filopastry

Feta cheese is already very salty so we don’t need to add any salt.

Happy cooking xx