Captain Rico Live from the bay

Burek

Burek

Adapted from TheMealDB

TheMealDB Sourced — pending WFPB review. Recipe data and image via TheMealDB. WFPB analysis and substitutions by Captain Rico are still in progress; the recipe below is the source's original. View the original at TheMealDB.

Prep: 1 min Cook: 36 min Servings: 4

Ingredients

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Method

  1. Prep: cook lentils, pulse with walnuts.
  2. water-sauté the finely chopped onions and minced meat in vegetable broth. Add the salt and pepper.
  3. Grease a round baking tray and put a layer of pastry in it.
  4. Cover with a thin layer of filling and cover this with another layer of filo pastry which must be well coated in vegetable broth.
  5. Put another layer of filling and cover with pastry.
  6. When you have five or six layers, cover with filo pastry, bake at 200ºC/392ºF for half an hour and cut in quarters and serve.
About the ingredients
Filo Pastry
Phyllo/filo: paper-thin unleavened dough of refined wheat flour, water, a little oil and sometimes cornstarch. Refined-flour product with added oil; noncanonical.
Onion Allium cepa
Bulb vegetable, eaten raw or cooked. Whole minimally-processed plant food; 'organic' refers to cultivation only. WFPB-canonical.
vegetable broth
A salt-free, all-purpose vegetable broth. Onion, carrots, celery, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, kombu, parsley.
Salt NaCl
Crystalline sodium chloride, harvested by evaporating seawater or mining rock-salt deposits. Used as seasoning and preservative since antiquity—central to trade and food economies for millennia. A mineral, not a plant food, and a sodium isolate; noncanonical to WFPB.
Pepper Piper nigrum
Dried unripe fruit (peppercorns) of the pepper vine, used whole or ground. A whole dried spice with nothing added or extracted. Canonical WFPB aromatic.