Description
Sweet bourekas are a Middle Eastern puff pastry dessert filled with sweet semolina and drizzled with orange blossom scented syrup
Ingredients
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- 2 Puff Pastry sheets
- 2 tbsp Finely chopped pistachios
Semolina Filling
- 2 cups unsweetened almond milk
- 1/2 cup semolina flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp rose water
- 1 tsp orange blossom water
Orange Blossom Syrup
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tsp rose water
- 1 tsp orange blossom water
- 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
Instructions
Semolina filling
- Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and stir well. Cook at medium heat until it thickens.
- Spread on a 10" plate, the mixture should be about 1/4" thick
- Refrigerate 20-25 minutes or until firm enough to cut
- Cut into 18 rectangular pieces.
Orange Blossom Syrup
- Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan. Start cooking at medium heat.
- Once the sugar is dissolved, add orange blossom and rose water.
- Bring to a boil, add lemon juice, and simmer for about 5 minutes. Set aside.
Semolina borekas
- Preheat the oven to 400ºF
- Unfold puff pastry and cut each one into 9 rectangular pieces
- Place a piece of semolina, which you previously cut, at the bottom half of each piece of puff pastry, fold over, and pinch the ends with a fork to seal them
- Once they are assembled, place them on a baking sheet and in the freezer for 10 minutes ( See note 1)
- Bake at 400 ºF for 20 minutes
- While hot, drizzle some syrup on top and sprinkle with chopped pistachios
Notes
- These borekas are best eaten fresh out of the oven. You can bake as many as you need and freeze the rest unbaked.
- Check out our quick youtube video for visual instructions
- Prep Time: 15
- Refrigeration time: 25
- Cook Time: 45
- Category: Dessert
- Method: baked
- Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 210
- Sugar: 8.7 g
- Sodium: 89.7 mg
- Fat: 11.2 g
- Saturated Fat: 1.6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 24.7 g
- Fiber: 0.7 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg