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Armenian Cheese Borek

Armenian Cheese Borek

It's always amazing to me how just a few simple ingredients can produce such amazing results for my taste buds!
Prep Time 1 hour
Course Appetizer
Cuisine Armenian
Servings 20

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pound of phyllo dough
  • 1 pound of jack cheese shredded or chopped in a food processor
  • ¾ bunch of parsley
  • ½ of a large yellow onion
  • 1 ½ teaspoons melted salted butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 ½-2 cubes of melted salted butter for brushing between layers of phyllo dough

Instructions
 

  • Finely dice onion and parsley leaves. Shred or mince cheese in a food processor.
  • Whisk an egg with a tablespoon of just-melted butter (you don't want to boil your egg).
  • Stir all ingredients together (onion, parsley, jack cheese, butter and egg.)
  • Unroll a defrosted package of phyllo dough. Cut the entire stack of phyllo dough sheets in half, length-wise, to make strips about 3-4" wide.
  • Cover one stack with saran wrap and a wet towel, to keep moist.
  • Butter one strip of phyllo dough with a pastry brush. Add another strip of phyllo dough to the top, and brush that layer with butter. Add a third strip of phyllo dough to the top, and brush the final layer with butter. You should have three sheets of phyllo dough, buttered in between.
  • Add 2 tablespoons of filling in the bottom corner of your phyllo dough. Take the bottom corner of all sheets and make a diagonal fold to the other side. Continue folding using a flag roll method.
  • Brush the tops and bottoms of all the boreks with butter before baking and place on a cookie sheet. (You won't need to grease the cookie sheet.)
  • Bake in the middle rack at 375 degree Fahrenheit for 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned on both sides. Serve immediately.
Keyword Cheese
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