Burek

[Sisak]

The best food in western Balkans. We have it in the bakeries in Croatia too.

What is yours the best stuffing?

My favorite is cheese burek.

[cally]

Spinach or cabbage

[Stefan_Dusan]

The best food in western Balkans. We have it in the bakeries in Croatia too.

What is yours the best stuffing?

My favorite is cheese burek.

That type of Bourek was invented in Nish (during Ottoman times) by Serbian cook.

[Alphawolf]

Börek has its origins in the Turkish cuisine (cf. Baklava) and is one of its most significant and, in fact, ancient elements of the Turkish cuisine, having been developed by the Turks of Central Asia before their westward migration to Anatolia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rek

[Stefan_Dusan]

Serbian round bourek, there are many types of bourek and I like them all, but this variant is specifically developed in Serbia:

[Insuperable]

The best food in western Balkans. We have it in the bakeries in Croatia too.

What is yours the best stuffing?

My favorite is cheese burek.

Hardly the best.

[Stefan_Dusan]

my favorite

That is not bourek... in Serbian we call this gibanica, and one of my favorite appetizers, especially dip in ajvar.

[Insuperable]

This didn't take long and in a food related thread.

[SardiniaAtlantis]

I'm sure the OP doesn't appreciate her Burek thread being turned into Turk,Gypsy,Shit talk.
I learned these as Boureki so I first tried them from a Cretan girl I knew. Looked something like this:

[Stefan_Dusan]

gibanica similar to turkish food kömbe


hard to eat,
turkish börek/burek like



soft

No gibanica is very very soft.