The Art of Making Burek

We just happened to be staying overnight at the mission home when Anna, from Zagreb, was teaching the Zagreb missionaries how to make homemade burek. Burek is a pastery made out of phyllo dough that has been kneaded, beaten, slammed, rolled, tossed, and rolled very thin, and filled.  The last part, after covering with filling, is to lift the sides of the sheet and the dough and ingredients just roll up into a long tube.  It can be filled with meat, potato, cheese, or fruit like apple or cherries and baked. It is very popular in our mission countries and you can find it at most bakeries. Anna was teaching the missionaries how to make the dough from scratch. We made so much dough that almost every missionary was able to try their hand at kneading the dough, rolling it very thin, adding the filling and rolling up the filled dough. We made meat, cheese, potato, apple and cherry burek. We made so much that all of the missionaries went home with Burek.