Burek

Made this for the first time tonight because I was trying to finish off some store bought philo pastry. Very thankful for all the comments. Helped me especially being new to handling philo sheets. I used A LOT of butter on each sheet and it made the spiral easy to form with the directed 2 sheet per Burek. I used garam masala seasoning because didn’t have all spice. I cut the potatoes into tiny cubes and cooked with meat and onions all together before I wrapped in pastry. Filling turned out nice. Having never eaten this before I wasn’t sure what to expect but I agree with some of the other comments that a dipping sauce of some kind to help with moisture. I can imagine sour cream or yogurt would punch it up. Otherwise, on its own it tasted nice. Thank you for the recipe.

It was way too dry. Hard to eat alone. Dipped it in yogurt sauce from this site. Helped it tremendously. Disappointed. I wanted to really like it. .

The potatoes were not cooked all the way through, even though the outside was beyond golden brown and nearly burned. The dough was so crackly and brittle. My soon-to-be ex boyfriend is Bosnian and he doesn't like it. Or maybe I'm just a bad cook.

I wanted to like this, but I didn't. A tablespoon of allspice to a pound of lean ground beef is thoroughly overwhelming. After tasting the filling with allspice/paprika/salt/pepper I knew I needed something else, so I looked for other versions of burek on the internet. I found recipes that also called for dill & parsley, so I added those. That still didn't cut it for me, so I added ground cayenne pepper, which made it tolerable, though no longer authentic. My husband liked the finished product, but I did not. 2 sheets of phyllo dough is wrappable if you are experienced with working with it; I'm not, but by the last one I had the hang of it and could make the snails. I had leftover phyllo, so I filled it with a mixture of honey, chocolate chips, and cranberries and rolled it up the same way, and basted it with butter too, for a "dessert" phyllo. I guess allspice is just not to my taste, but thank you for sharing your family's recipe. I enjoyed making them :)