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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Turkish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Brown meat in pan at medium-hi heat. | 2. Drain and transfer browned meat to a medium bowl to cool. | 3. When the meat has cooled crumble cheese and add to the meat. | 4. Add the parsley, garlic thyme and pepper and mix well. | 5. Let this sit for 30 minutes. | 6. In a small bowl beat the egg with water to make an egg wash. | 7. Working quickly now, so the phyllo does not dry out. | 8. Take 1 sheet phyllo dough brush or spray with olive oil, place another sheet on top and brush or spray again. | 9. Cut the two sheets into six rectangles. | 10. Take a good tablespoon of meat mix and place it about an 1 ½” to 2 inches up from one of the corners of the rectangle. | 11. Lift the corner of the pastry and fold over the meat mixture, then lift and fold the corner on the right and then left to make and envelope about 3- 4 inches wide, then roll up to top. | 12. Repeat for the next five pieces. | 13. Brush with egg wash. | 14. Heat some of the olive oil in a heavy pan a fry the meat rolls, turning to brown on all sides, lightly flatten them with spatula while frying. | 15. Repeat the dough and rolling with the rest of the dough sheets. | 16. These are also very nice cold. | 17. I sometimes use a Tzatziki sauce for dip or mint sauce if using lamb. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
lamb	3/4	lb	ground used	908.334	0.0	57.4258	73.4492
milk cheese	3/4	lb	used crumbled	1020.6023	7.4504	75.4225	76.0349
garlic clove	1		minced	4.47	0.9918	0.1908	0.015
parsley	1/4	cup	chopped	5.4	0.9495	0.4455	0.1185
thyme	1	teaspoon		0.8079999999999999	0.1956	0.0445	0.0134
pepper				-	-	-	-
phyllo dough	8	sheets		454.48	79.952	10.792	9.12
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
water	2	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
olive oil	1/4	cup		477.36	0.0	0.0	54.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.