Cheese Borag Recipes

EASY CHEESE BOARD

Steps:

• Arrange the fig leaves on a round platter. Place the grapes in the middle and the Brie, Cheddar and goat cheese around the grapes. Sprinkle thyme leaves and place a sprig of time on top of the goat cheese and drizzle with olive oil. Add the blue cheese to the cheese arrangement and artfully arrange the apricots, figs and crackers among the cheeses.

CHEESE BOEREG

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the egg, egg white, ricotta and parsley. Stir in mozzarella cheese; set aside. , Unroll phyllo dough; cut the stack of sheets in half widthwise. Place one sheet of phyllo dough in a greased 13x9-in. baking pan; brush with butter. Repeat nine times (keep remaining dough covered with plastic wrap to avoid drying out)., Spread cheese mixture evenly over top. Layer with remaining dough, brushing butter on every other sheet. , Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Cut into triangles or squares.

CHEESE BORAGS (ARMENIA)

Steps:

• Mix the three cheeses with the egg. Set aside.
• Cover the phyllo dough with a piece of plastic wrap, then put a damp towel over the plastic wrap. This helps prevent drying.
• Take one sheet of Phyllo and fold it in half. Brush the folded sheet with melted butter.
• Put a spoonful of the filling onto the lower right corner of the sheet.
• Now fold the sheet over the filling, from corner to corner, as if you were folding a flag. You should have a triangle. Fold again, and one more time. Trim off any excess dough.
• Repeat until you have used all the filling.
• Brush the top of each borag with melted butter, then bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the borags turn a golden brown color. Serve hot.

ARMENIAN CHEESE BOEREG

Steps:

• Mix cheeses together with 1 beaten egg and parsley.
• Melt butter in a small frying pan.
• Bring fillo dough to room temperature. Unroll dough on wax paper, cut in half for appetizer size boereg. stack and cover with saran wrap and a damp towel.
• Take one sheet of filo, with short side facing you. Brush entire sheet with melted butter. Place half a teaspoon of cheese a little to the right of center, toward the bottom of the sheet. Fold right side over cheese, and left side over top, in thirds.
• Brush with butter, and fold up the bottom over the cheese ball, then fold over diagonally. Continue to fold diagonally, left and right, until you reach the top and you will have a triangular shaped boereg, around 3 inches across bottom.
• Spray sheet pan with PAM and butter tops of boereg before baking.
• Preheat over to around 300-325 and bake for about 20 minutes, until very light brown.