Does anyone know a recipe for Sephardic bourekas?!
Answers:
Potato Knishes
Knishes are to the Eastern European Jewish diet what bourekas are to the Sephardic or Middle-Eastern Jewish diet. Knishes are both street food and a first course or appetizer. They can be small and elegant at a cocktail party or slightly larger as a first course or even one large knish, sliced into portions. Knishes, depending upon the country of origin and the family, can be filled with potatoes, cabbage, meat, or cheese. Today there are more exotic variations. The knish seasonings tend to me more Eastern European and subdued than boureka seasonings. Serve these potato knishes hot as an appetizer or first course, or take them on a picnic at room temperature.
Dough
* 2 cups flour
* 1 tsp. baking powder
* 1/2 tsp. salt
* 2 T. canola oil
* 2 eggs
* 1/4 cup water, room temperature
* additional 1 T. canola oil
Potato Filling
* 2 cups mashed, cooked potato (two large or three small)
* 2 T. canola oil
* 2 large onions, chopped
* salt, black pepper, and garlic to taste
Yield: 24
Put all dough ingredients in food processor, pulse a few times, and then continue to process until the dough forms a ball. Put a tablespoon of oil on your hands, coat the ball of dough with the oil, and wrap the dough in plastic. Refrigerate the wrapped dough for 1 hour. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350° F. Bake the potatoes in a microwave or conventionaloven, or boil in water. Peel and mash well. Fry onions in oil until golden. Mix onions, potatoes, spices.
Divide dough into 3 parts, and roll into 10x6 inch rectangles. One inch from the edge, along the longer edge of each piece of dough, place 1/3 of the filling in a narrow, high row. Spread the filling evenly, and then, beginning with the edge closer to the filling, roll the dough around the filling, finally sealing the dough along the long edges. Place the long knishes on a large greased cookie sheet, and bake for about 40 minutes. Slice each of the knishes into 8 pieces before serving. Alternatively, the dough can be separated into 24 small pieces, and each piece can be individually filled and baked.
Any uneaten knishes should be refrigerated or frozen and reheated. Be sure to wrap them well so they don't absorb other flavors from the freezer.
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Recipe for Bourekas — from Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (www.israel-mfa.gov.il)
Bourekasim (Hebrew plural of Bourekas) are a Jewish Sephardic dish and are similar to American turnovers. A Bourekas is an appetizer with leafy dough surrounding a filling (cheese, potato, spinach, mushroom, etc.) on the inside. It is a common treat in Israeli homes on Shabbat.
Bourekas
Dough
1/2 lb. margarine
1 tsp. salt
3 cups self-rising flour
warm water
Stuffing
1/2 cup cheese (feta)
1 cup cooked spinach
3 egg yolks
Garnish
1 egg yolk
4 cups sesame seeds
Dough:
Melt the margarine and mix with flour and salt.
Add warm water until able to roll dough.
Roll it, cut a leaf, and cut circles with a cup.
Stuffing:
Mix all the ingredients.
Put one teaspoon of stuffing on each dough circle.
Fold in half.
On top, spread yolk and sprinkle sesame seeds.
Place on a well-greased cookie tray and bake at 350 deg F (180 deg C) until golden (approx. 15-20 min.).
Serve hot.
http://joi.org/celebrate/shabbat/cooking…
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