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Borek [boh-rek] (plural Böreği) is a delicious Turkish/Eastern European street food that I added to the OneandahalfSlices repertoire in college when a Turkish friend took the time to teach me a little of his home cuisine.

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Noun. burek (plural bureks) A type of baked or fried filled pastry of the former Ottoman Empire.

The recipe for "round" burek was developed in the Serbian town of Niš. In 1498, it was introduced by a famous Turkish baker, Mehmed Oğlu, from Istanbul. Eventually burek spread from the southeast (southern Serbia, Kosovo and North Macedonia) to the rest of Yugoslavia.

Burek, or pita, is a pie made with phyllo dough. Think layers of parchment paper-thin, flaky dough, stuffed with delicious fillings, shaped into different forms. And then baked.

Byrek translates to pie in Albanian; you should need no other detail to order one up. This flaky layered pastry is stuffed with all kinds of goodness: meat, veggies, potatoes, cheese, you name it. Best of all, it's one traditional Albanian dish you can pick up from a street cart.

Seriously, whether you're eating it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or when you're trying to sober up after you've had one too many, burek will jump-start your body and give you all the energy you need. Bonus points for tasting delicious!

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A byrek is a pastry that can be savory or sweet. it is made of flour dough and can have fillings of meat, veggies, fruit, or cheese. Byrek is part of the cuisine of many Mediterranean countries, and can be called "burek", "borek", or "spanakopita".

pierogi, one or more dumplings of Polish origin, made of unleavened dough filled with meat, vegetables, or fruit and boiled or fried or both. In Polish pierogi is the plural form of pieróg (“dumpling”), but in English the word pierogi is usually treated as either singular or plural.