Börek with potatoes – hearty & delicious
Börek with potatoes is like a warm, hearty cake that makes you really happy with every slice – a real comfort food. You can easily make this vegetarian börek yourself and enjoy it warm or cold. I’ll show you how with this simple potato börek recipe – you’ll love it!
What is Börek?
Börek is a dish that originated in Turkey and is made with yufka dough. However, it is also known in parts of the Balkans, Arab countries and Greece. Whether as a main meal or street food, it is popular everywhere.
What is the filling of Börek?
The börek filling is usually savory and there are different variations. For example, börek with minced meat or börek with potatoes. There are other versions of the dish that vary according to country and region.
That is why there are also different forms of the dish. Börek or burek can be served layered as a casserole, as a roll or as a dumpling. For example, I rolled up the börek with spinach as a snail.
Make really spicy potato börek with these simple ingredients
This börek recipe with potatoes uses just a few ingredients but is still super filling. Thanks to the potatoes, the filling is nice and hearty, just the way I like it.
You need the following ingredients for the börek with potatoes:
For the sauce: butter, milk, yogurt, eggs, salt and pepper.
For the filling and preparation:
- Potatoes: preferably floury ones, as they fall apart quite quickly
- Onions & garlic
- Olive oil
- Fresh, flat-leaf parsley
- Ready-made yufka dough: alternatively, you can make the yufka dough yourself
- Egg yolk: for brushing to give the börek a great color
- Black cumin seeds: alternatively sesame seeds
Tip: Would you like to make the potato börek vegan? Then simply replace the dairy products with plant-based alternatives and the egg yolk with plant-based milk to coat the surface.
Make your own savory börek with potatoes – it’s so easy!
The sauce: Melt the butter and stir with the milk, yogurt and egg until creamy. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
The filling: Boil the potatoes until cooked and sauté the onions and garlic. Mash everything together with the parsley and season with spices.
Preparation: Place the yufka pastry sheets in the dish so that the sheets extend over the edge of the dish. Drizzle the sauce over the pastry sheets, spread the potato mixture on top and place another pastry sheet on top. Repeat this process until everything is used up. Brush the surfaces with sauce, fold in, sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake the börek with potatoes in the oven until crispy and golden brown.
Preparing the börek is really easy and the oven does the baking. In the meantime, you can set the table and make yourself comfortable.
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I hope you enjoy preparing them and, of course, bon appétit.
Simple börek with potatoes recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 Kg Potatoes (floury)
- 1 Onion
- 1 Garlic clove
- 1 Tablespoon Olive oil
- 15 g Flat-leaf parsley
- 10 Yufka dough sheets approx. 250 g
- 1 Egg yolk (M)
- 1 Tablespoon Black cumin seeds
Zubereitung
- Peel the potatoes and cook them in a pan of salted water. Cut them into small pieces so they cook faster.
- Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic.
- Heat the oil in a pan and sauté the onion for 2-3 minutes.
- Add the garlic and spices and fry for 1 min.
- Wash and roughly chop the parsley.
- Line the springform tin with baking paper and grease the sides. Preheat the oven to 180° C top and bottom heat.
- Drain the potatoes and mash them in a bowl with the onions, garlic and parsley. Season again if necessary.
- Line the tin with approx. 3-4 sheets of yufka dough so that some of the dough sticks out over the edge.
- Spread the potato mixture over the base and cover with a sheet of yufka dough. Repeat this process until there are no more pastry sheets and no more potato mixture left.
- Brush the last pastry sheet with egg yolk.
- Fold in the pastry sheets that protrude over the edge and brush them in as well.
- Sprinkle the potato börek with black cumin seeds and bake at 180° C for approx. 30 minutes until crispy.
Notes
Nährwerte
What is the shelf life of potato börek?
If you haven’t made it all, you can store the savory pastries in an airtight container or tin in the fridge for approx. 2-3 days.
If you want to reheat the rest, do it in a pan, in the oven, in the microwave or in an airfryer – but not too hot, otherwise it will burn on the outside and still be cold on the inside.
Which side dishes go well with börek?
Börek with potatoes is a hearty meal in itself. But there’s nothing wrong with a small side dish such as bulgur salad or tomato and cucumber salad. Also dips such as tzatziki or labneh.
Don’t have an oven at home but do have an Airfryer? Then try the börek from the air fryer.
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