How many calories in a burek
A portion of meat burek has 700 kcal, with 40 g of fat.
Portion
To burn it off
Burek is layers of thin filo pastry, brushed with oil and filled with minced meat or soft cheese. It's flaky because of all that fat between the layers.
A bakery portion with meat is 700 kcal, the cheese one is 650. It's a full meal in a paper bag.
Across the Balkans it's breakfast, often with a glass of yoghurt. That's the move, because it's filling stuff.
Tips
- 1Ask for a smaller piece, most bakeries cut it to order.
- 2Have it with plain yoghurt, so it carries you all morning.
Where it comes from
Burek comes from the Turkish börek, a family of filled and layered pastries that Turkic peoples brought west from Central Asia. It became a delicacy in the Ottoman imperial kitchens, and five centuries of Ottoman rule spread it across the Balkans, where every country now has its own. The name probably goes back to an old Turkic word, though linguists still argue about it.
Where does our food come from? · Source: History Today, A History of Börek
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Questions
What is burek?
A Balkan pie of filo pastry filled with meat, cheese, spinach or potato.
Is cheese burek lower than meat burek?
A little. Cheese burek is about 650 kcal per portion, meat about 700.
Why do people eat burek with yoghurt?
Tradition, and it works: the cool, tangy yoghurt cuts through the rich pastry.
Why is only the meat one called burek in Bosnia?
In Bosnia burek means the meat pie. With cheese it's sirnica, with spinach zeljanica and with potato krompiruša, and together they're simply pita.
Is burek the same as gibanica?
No. Gibanica is a Serbian bake of filo layered with cheese and beaten eggs, softer and more like a cake. Burek is flakier, with oil between the sheets.
