In Bosnia the name Burek refers only to original Meat Burek unlike in Serbia where you have too choose from many types. Modern bakeries offer cheese and spinach, apple, sour cherries, potato, mushroom, and other fillings. [29] The mentor of the student that had written the thesis described the topic as legitimate and burek as denoting primitive behavior in Slovenia in spite of it being a sophisticated food. Burek is only with meat. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. There are 2,000 census records available for the last name Burek.

The North African version, Brik can also be found in Israel. The same spiral filled with cottage cheese is called sirnica, with spinach and cheese zeljanica, with potatoes krompiruša, and all of them are generically referred to as pita. The Pontian Greek piroski (πιροσκί) derives its name from börek too. Some less common occupations for Americans named Burek were Miner and Waitress, View Census data for Burek | Data not to scale. It may be eaten for any meal of the day. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. Bourekas with a pizza sauce are often round spirals rising toward the middle or sometimes cylindrical without seeds, differentiated from the bean sprout-filled cylinders without seeds by the red sauce oozing out the ends. Bourekas come in small, "snack" size, often available in self-service bakeries, and sizes as large as four or five inches. It was altered by our bakers and since then prepared every where in the region. Other fillings are making it a pie. So you need practice with this one. Börek (Turkish pronunciation: [bœˈɾec]; also burek and other variants) is a family of baked filled pastries made of a thin flaky dough such as phyllo or yufka, typically filled with meat, cheese or vegetables. The recipe for "round" burek was developed in the Serbian town of Niš. Lakror is a specific kind of byrek from the region of Korça. [10], Börek is very popular in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire, especially in North Africa and throughout the Balkans. In 2005, a 100 kg (220 lbs) burek was made, with a diameter of 2 metres (≈6 ft)[26] and it is considered to have been the world biggest burek ever made. Υγιεινές – αυθεντικές Ελληνικές και Κυπριακές συνταγές, "Neverjetno - na FDV je mogoče diplomirati iz bureka!? The race and Hispanic origin distribution of the people with the name BUREK is 97.7% White, 0.8% Hispanic origin, 0.0% Black, 0.6% Asian or Pacific Islander, 1.0% Two or More Races, and 0.0% American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Step 4: Remove the pan from the heat, add the paprika, allspice and cinnamon, stir through and allow the meat mixture to cool. Burek is an integral part of Slavic cuisine.. Less salty cheese-filled are semi-circular and usually made with puff pastry. This was about 15% of all the recorded Burek's in the USA. In the nations established or reestablished in the stead of the territories of the former Yugoslavia, burek is regularly available at most bakeries, and usually eaten as "fast food". [16], In Bulgarian, the word byurek has also come to be applied to other dishes similarly prepared with cheese and eggs, such as chushka byurek (чушка бюрек), a peeled and roasted pepper filled with cheese, and tikvichka byurek (тиквичка бюрек), blanched or uncooked bits of squash with eggs filling. Supermarkets stock a wide selection of frozen raw-dough bourekas ready for home baking. An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Burek ancestors lived in harsh conditions. Assyrian burek is usually stuffed with spiced ground beef, finely chopped onion, paprika, parsley and spices. The recipe was brought by a Turkish baker Mehmed Oglu from Istanbul to my home town of Niš in 1498. I hope you could try it sometimes. I think it looks like an apple pie. Byrek is traditionally made with several layers of dough that have been thinly rolled out by hand. In Serbian towns, Bosnian pastry dishes were imported by war refugees in the 1990s, and are usually called sarajevske pite or bosanske pite (Sarajevo pies or Bosnian pies). [25] Eventually burek spread from the southeast (southern Serbia, Kosovo and North Macedonia) to the rest of Yugoslavia. The larger ones can serve as a snack or a meal, and can be sliced open, and stuffed with hard-boiled egg, pickles, tomatoes and Sahawiq, a spicy Yemenite paste. [9] Turkic languages in Arabic orthography, however, invariably write ك and not ق which rules out "bur-" which has a backed vowel /u/ at its core.

There are 895 immigration records available for the last name Burek. Burek is traditionally eaten with yogurt. He explained the controversy as a good example of the conclusions of the student. In Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Slovenia, burek is made from layers of dough, alternating with layers of other fillings in a circular baking pan and then topped with a last layer of dough. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Burek census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.

According to my dear friend Srdjan, who is from Montenegro (part of the former Yugoslavia), burek can be found throughout Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in the USA, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure. The stuffing is placed on a thin layer of rolled out dough, then sealed, resembling a half moon or an empanada. The important thing is that dough is greased (oiled) before sou start the craziness from the video. All I can do here is admire this short film. View Social Security Death Index (SSDI) for Burek. Click. The defining characteristics of lakror is that it is made up of only two layers of pastry and traditionally cooked on embers with a metal semispherical lid[15]. In Venetian Corfu, boureki was also called burriche,[20] and filled with meat and leafy greens.