Family Style Beef Bourekas
This family-style, crispy Beef Bourekas will be the highlight of your Rosh Hashanah table! You can make it in advance, freeze it, and just reheat it in the oven!
90 minutes
Serves 8
Medium
Instructions
- 1.Preheat the oven to 400F / 200C
- 2.In a skillet pan on medium heat pour the olive oil. add the chopped onion, salt, pepper, turmeric, paprika and cumin.
- 3.Sauté and stir it all for 2 minutes.
- 4.Add the ground beef, stir and fry it until the beef is fully cooked for about 25 minutes.
- 5.Add the boiled potatoes and mash them with a potato masher. Add the fresh herbs, minced garlic and date syrup.
- 6.Mix it all together to a smooth mixture. Let it cool for 15-20 minutes.
- 7.Take an oven-safe pan and spray olive oil on the bottom of the pan.
- 8.Take one phyllo dough roll. Crinkle-fold one phyllo sheet at a time, and cover the bottom of the pan.
- 9.Spray olive oil on top of the phyllo dough and spread the beef mixture evenly on top of the phyllo. Make sure everything is covered.
- 10.Take the second roll of the phyllo dough and roughly crinkle-fold the fillo sheets on top.
- 11.Generously spray olive oil on top of all and sprinkle nigella seeds and sesame seeds.
- 12.Bake it on 400F for 35 minutes until it’s golden and ready.
Ingredients
- •1/4 cup of olive oil
- •1 large sweet onion, finely chopped
- •2 pounds of ground beef
- •4 potatoes, boiled and peeled
- •1 teaspoon of salt
- •1/2 teaspoon of black pepper
- •1 teaspoon of paprika
- •1/2 teaspoon of turmeric
- •1 teaspoon of cumin
- •Handful of fresh chopped cilantro
- •Handful of fresh chopped parsley
- •2 minced garlic cloves
- •1 tablespoon of date syrup
- •Phyllo pastry dough sheets (1 roll 14x18 inch) 16 oz / 454g
- •Spray of olive oil or avocado oil
- •Topping- Nigella seeds and sesame seeds
Instructions
- 1.Preheat the oven to 400F / 200C
- 2.In a skillet pan on medium heat pour the olive oil. add the chopped onion, salt, pepper, turmeric, paprika and cumin.
- 3.Sauté and stir it all for 2 minutes.
- 4.Add the ground beef, stir and fry it until the beef is fully cooked for about 25 minutes.
- 5.Add the boiled potatoes and mash them with a potato masher. Add the fresh herbs, minced garlic and date syrup.
- 6.Mix it all together to a smooth mixture. Let it cool for 15-20 minutes.
- 7.Take an oven-safe pan and spray olive oil on the bottom of the pan.
- 8.Take one phyllo dough roll. Crinkle-fold one phyllo sheet at a time, and cover the bottom of the pan.
- 9.Spray olive oil on top of the phyllo dough and spread the beef mixture evenly on top of the phyllo. Make sure everything is covered.
- 10.Take the second roll of the phyllo dough and roughly crinkle-fold the fillo sheets on top.
- 11.Generously spray olive oil on top of all and sprinkle nigella seeds and sesame seeds.
- 12.Bake it on 400F for 35 minutes until it’s golden and ready.
