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Çerkeş water börek

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Ingredients

  • 1,500 gWheat flour
  • 500 gEgg
  • 200 gWater step 1
  • 24 gSalt step 1
  • 500 gGround beef
  • 2 gGround black pepper
  • 170 gSunflower oil
  • 300 gButter
  • 5,000 gWater step 3
  • 64 gSalt step 3
  • 4,000 gWater step 3
  • 32 gSalt step 3

The source does not say how many it serves. Amounts are the whole recipe as written; no serving count was made up.

Grams are the real measure. Glasses and spoons are approximate and vary by ingredient. 1 Turkish glass is 200 ml.

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Cross-section

  1. Water75%
  2. Wheat flour12%
  3. Egg 4%
  4. Ground beef 4%
  5. Butter 2%
  6. Sunflower oil 1%
  7. Salt 1%
  8. Ground black pepper 0%

Ingredients by weight, heaviest at the bottom.

Method

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl. Add the dough water, dough salt and flour and knead until it feels like an earlobe.

    10 min

  2. Divide the dough into 16 balls, cover and rest them. Roll each into a sheet about 50 cm across and let it dry on a cloth.

    15 min

  3. Boil the cooking water with its salt and salt the cold water too. Cook the sheets one at a time in the boiling water for 1 minute, then drop into the cold salted water for 1 minute. Strip off excess water without squeezing.

    1 min

  4. Fry the mince with the black pepper in a little of the oil.

  5. Melt the butter and mix it with the rest of the sunflower oil. Grease the base and sides of the tray with butter and layer in the sheets. Drizzle about 14 g of the mixture over each sheet and sprinkle fried mince over every third layer.

  6. Bake in a preheated 200 °C oven. Cut and serve.

    1 h

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Last changed: November 1, 2026

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