Turkish cigar baking is also called bereki. It’s delicious cheese filling with greens wrapped in several layers of filo dough, and baked in the oven. It turns out puff, crispy and very delicious cigars that everyone will like at home the party. When assembling them, do not try to put as much as possible toppings. Firstly, it can leak out like that. And secondly, just one a tablespoon of cheese mix will give your cigars a balanced, moderately salty taste. With no habit of folding cigars can take you have a lot of time, so they can be collected in advance and put in freezer. And on the day of serving, bake without defrosting, and подавайте с пылу с жару. 
Time: 55 мин. Complexity: easy Servings: 12 The recipes use measuring containers with a volume of: 1 glass (st.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (Art.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 6 sheets of filo dough measuring 40-42×30 cm, thawed in according to the recommendation on the package *
- 120 gr. cottage cheese
- 60 gr crumbled feta
- 1/4 Art. grated mozzarella
- 1 large egg
- 3 tbsp. l finely chopped parsley
- 2 tbsp. l finely chopped dill
- 1 tbsp. l chopped chives
- 0.5 tsp grated lemon zest
- 6 tbsp. l (90 gr.) Melted butter
Recipes with similar ingredients: filo dough, cottage cheese, feta cheese, cheese mozzarella, lemon zest, chives, dill
Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
- In a bowl, mash the cottage cheese, feta and mozzarella together with a fork. Stir in an egg with a fork, then add parsley, dill, onion, zest lemon and a big pinch of black pepper.
- Put a damp clean towel on the table. Spread out the sheets filo dough and cover on top with another wet clean with a towel.
- Put 1 sheet of filo on a chopping board with the long side toward yourself and grease with a thin layer of butter. Put another one on top one sheet of filo and lightly grease with butter. Then put a third sheet of filo and grease with butter. Cut the stack cut in half, then cut each half horizontally into three parts. Lay the rectangles on a baking sheet. Repeat the same most with the remaining sheets of dough.
- Next, working with one pile of dough at a time, lay out 1 tbsp. l with a slide of cheese along the long side of each rectangle, 1 cm back from the edges. Fold the sides above the filling, then roll the filling into the dough from the bottom edge up. Put the resulting cigar on the baking sheet with the seam down and grease with a thin layer butter. Repeat the same with the remaining test, stuffing and butter.
- Bake cigars by turning the baking sheet with the other side in the middle baking, until crispy golden brown, about 25 minutes. Transfer to a serving platter and serve. filo dough vary slightly in size. They are big as in the list of ingredients above, or half as much. Large sheets vary in size by a couple of centimeters. Whatever their sizes, the most important thing is that you get 6 equal rectangles from each stack of 3 large sheets.
