{"id":22962,"date":"2015-09-07T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ou.org\/life\/?p=22962"},"modified":"2016-12-01T03:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:34:43","slug":"stuffed_dough_recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/food\/stuffed_dough_recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bourekas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.ou.org\/content\/banners\/shsh\/calzone215.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The old saying \u201cyou say tomato I say tomatoe\u201d is never more true than in the foodie realm of stuffed dough pockets. In some cultures they\u2019re called calzones, other empanadas or perhaps the word you prefer pierogi or in my world the bourekas.<\/p>\n<p>Basically we\u2019re talking about an all in one hand held meal or appetizer here. Perfect for any high holiday meal and especially delicious when eaten in the Sukkah. They\u2019re typically small to medium pastries here, utilizing yeast dough, shortening dough, puff pastry or phyllo crust, kinda sorta resembling a turnover that can be filled with everything from potatoes to cheese and\/or vegetable and\/or meat and possibility a sauce.<\/p>\n<p>To be more culture specific: Calzones are an Italian treat that literally translated to mean \u201cbaggy pants\u201d. Dim Sum is a small oriental inspired turnover with seasoned mixtures of meat, fish, or vegetables. Then there\u2019s the empanada, translated from Spanish, surprising no one, to mean; sandwich. Empanadas are sometimes filled with ground meat or sweet potatoes or fruit or raisins. Pasties hale from merry old England were, once upon a time, the favorite foods of the Cornish miners to take with down into the coal mines. Pirogues are filled pockets of dough, Polish in origin and are usually served as a side dish. Spanokopitas are light flaky Greek baked treat, typically made with phyllo dough filled with spinach, cottage cheese, feta cheese and olives. And last but not least there\u2019s the bourekas (or borekas) Bourekas are an eastern European delicacy that have traditionally been shaped a specific way to indicate their filings.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019re all agreed, nothing beats a flaky, hot, freshly baked stuffed (fill in the blank here) except maybe eating the next one, or having one or two leftover for shalosh\u00a0ses. I know, I know, too many possibilities, not enough recipes. Oh, wait, you will have recipes IF you just read a little bit further. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old saying \u201cyou say tomato I say tomatoe\u201d is never more true than in the foodie realm of stuffed dough pockets. In some cultures they\u2019re called calzones, other empanadas or perhaps the word you prefer pierogi or in my world the bourekas. 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