Homemade Cheese Bourekas Recipe (video)

This is another one of those recipes where there are a million different regional variations. It seems to be an Israeli dish at its base, but a version of it is served all around the Mediterranean and in parts of the Middle East. We do a fairly non-traditional cheese mix for this one. We replace the feta with a soft bloomy-rind goat cheese and the ricotta with a mascarpone. The basic point is that you can replace the cheeses with whatever blend you would prefer, or what you can easy get your hands on locally.

This version uses puff pastry, but there are other versions that use things like phyllo pastry, and these definitely bear a resemblance to the much sweeter cheese blintz. Do make sure you get as much air out from the inside as you can. As you can see, we had a bit of a blowout on a couple of them, probably because we didn't quite get enough of the air from the inside and it burst out when it was hot, letting the cheese escape with it!

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