Bourekas

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Bourekas are the golden-crusted answer to a baker's question: what happens when Sephardic tradition meets the demand for something you can hold in your hand and finish in three bites? These baked turnovers travel across a continent of influences—the pastry might be puff, filo, or brik depending on who's making them—and the fillings span whatever the kitchen has to offer. They're everywhere in Israeli life, a baked good so woven into the cuisine that their very shape-shifting nature defines them.

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Bourekas or burekas (Hebrew: בורקס, Ladino: burekas) are a widely consumed baked turnover in Sephardic Jewish cuisine and Israeli cuisine. A variation of the burek, a common baked good throughout southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Israeli bourekas are made in a wide variety of shapes and a vast selection of fillings, and are typically made with either puff pastry, filo dough, or brik pastry, depending on the origin of the baker.

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