Home made Phyllo dough and Turkish Borek

ingredients :

for dough :

• 4 cups of all purpose flour
• 4 t.spoon of melted butter or margarine
• 1 egg
• 1/2 t.spoon of salt
• 1 cup of hot water

 for the filling :  

• 8 t.spoons melted butter (to brush the dough)
• 16 oz ground beef
• 1 onion (chopped)

topping:

• 2 eggs
• 2 table spoons of plain yogurt
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
  

1. Stew the ground beef until for 10-15 minutes

add chopped onion and cook covered another 10-15 minutes...

Put 4 cups of flour in a bowl, add water, egg, salt and melted butter

kneed until you get  a smooth and soft dough. Cover it and let stand for 30 minutes

Make the topping. Beat the eggs, yogurt, baking soda. Set aside.

divide the dough into 6 "balls"

* Note:  use corn starch instead of flour to roll the dough

roll each "ball" out as thin as you can

 if you want you can roll 2 balls at once. Roll 1st one in a size of serving plate,
sift starch over it and put the second rolled dough

and roll

don't worry, they won't stick!

you can see now, how thin are they...

brush the dough with the melted butter

put 1/6 of filling (in room temperature)

and roll as rolls

then, place the phyllo dough rolls in a round greased pan as you can see in a picture below
and spread the topping over the dough.

Bake 40-45 minutes or until golden brown

Cover it with foil and let stand for 10-15 minutes.
You can serve it now and enjoy !!!

Go'mma, Varaqi (Fried Dough pockets stuffed with meat)

Ingredients:

for dough:

•  1 cup milk (cold)
•  1 tea spoon salt
•  2-3 cups of all purpose flour

filling:

• 1 lb. ground beef 
• 1-2 onions (finely chopped)
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1/4 ground black pepper
• 1/4 cup cold water

In a bow mix salt and milk. Add flour and make a soft and nice dough. Then, cover and let rest for 15-20 minutes.

finely chop the onion

put into a bowl ground beef, chopped onion, salt,black pepper an water mix well.

 cut the dough into small pieces and make "balls" in a size of wallnuts

roll out each "ball" 5.5 inch (14 centimeters) diameter circle shape and spread 1 table spoon of filling on one half (as yo see in the picture below)...

and fold over to make a half circle. Pinch the edges. You can wet the edges to make sure they stick together.

fry the dough pockets in medium heated oil

turning occasionally until golden brown on all sides.

Serve hot and enjoy!