Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Boyos (Sephardic Rolls with Rabe and Feta)

“My grandma was the best cook ever!” says anyone who has ever been interested in cooking and eating. I say the same thing myself. For years I have been trying to replicate her recipes from memory. She died when I was 13, so it’s mostly guesswork. One of these is boyos – a kind of round roll with spinach and feta filling. There were also other fillings, like onion and egg, ground beef too. I recall vividly one day exclaiming how much I liked them, so whenever I saw her, she would have made dozens just for me, to put in the freezer and have for breakfast every day. In all honesty, they were a bit dense and since she was Mediterranean at heart, she poured olive oil on top. My father would become incensed; he liked them fine without oil, but she insisted.

After a little sleuthing I found that boyoz, as they are spelled in Turkey, are still made in the city of Izmir (Smyrna) where my grandmother’s family came from, and they are still associated with the Sephardic Jewish community. Of course the name is bollo – and they come originally from Spain. They are often unfilled in Turkey and are made of a pulled filo dough, light like a croissant. Nothing like my grandmother’s.

So with this recipe I thought about how much better they would be light and flaky, so I made a simple yeasted and laminated croissant-like dough with butter. I also used broccoli rabe instead of spinach, because the oxalic acid in the latter strips the enamel off my teeth and makes them feel chalky. And because rabe is the best vegetable on earth, period. Use a good creamy feta too, ideally from Bulgaria, but French feta can be great too.   

 

1 c pastry flour
1/8 tsp sea salt
1 tsp instant yeast
1/3 c water, plus a little more for kneading
6 tbs salted butter
1 bunch broccoli rabe
3 tbs olive oil
1 tsp salt
6 oz feta cheese
1 egg
1 tsp each black and white sesame seeds

 

Mix the flour, salt, yeast and water and knead for about 10 minutes, keeping your hands wet with extra water (rather than dry with flour). Place pats of the cold butter on a sheet of plastic wrap and put another sheet on top. Roll it out into a thin square. Roll out the dough on a large wooden board, this time floured. Remove the top sheet of plastic from the butter and set it directly on the dough; then remove the other sheet. Fold the dough over the butter like a book and roll out. Repeat folding over and rolling out 4 or 5 times more, wrap the dough in the plastic and let rest in the fridge for an hour.

Chop the broccoli rabe, discarding the thick ends of the stems. Fry in the oil and season with salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring now and then, for about 15 minutes. Remove from the pan and place in a bowl to cool. Then crumble in the feta and add ¾ of the egg. Mix well. And set aside until the dough is finished resting in the fridge.

Roll out the dough on a floured board. Cut into four pieces. Place the filling in the center of each piece and fold over the sides, encasing the filling. Then turn them over, so the top is smooth. Brush with the remaining egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Then heat the oven to 400 degrees. Bake the boyos for 10 minutes and then lower the heat to 350 and cook another 20 minutes until browned. Eat them hot, for breakfast of course. 



54 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those look delicious!

Andrew Martin said...

Not only do they look delicious, but they'd be great nutritious traveling fare -- hiking, long car-trips -- just wrap a few in a paper bag with a napkin. I wonder if your grandmother's dough wasn't more of a hard shell, like an empanada? Delightful to hear reminiscences of your grandmother. She was the first immigrant "from the Old Country" I ever met in America -- soon afterwards I met Opa and Oma Schumann from Germany and Sam's Nana Elias from Kastoria -- but it always gave me a frisson to see her, and I enjoyed hearing her speak in her distinctly un-placeable accent. Izmir Ladino via Brooklyn via Lakewood? A sweet post.

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Sule said...

Boyoz instead of boyos is a symbol of Izmir as a one of the street tastes.Its inherited from jewish culinary culture from Ottoman Empire era.

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My husband's family is Sephardic, from Turkey, and he grew up eating very different "Jewish" food than I did as an Ashkenazi Jew. After we married, I hunted down old Sephardic cookbooks online (eBay) and interrogated my sister-in-law about everything she remembered about watching her mother, aunts, and grandmothers cook. No recipes were ever written down in their family, so I've been slowly trying to recreate the food my husband ate growing up: e.g. borekas (spinach/potato, and cheese and potato), biscochos (super simple cookie/biscuit with sesame seeds on top), huevos con tomat (essentially shakshukah), mina de espinaka for Passover, etc. I've been having a lot of fun doing this. My biscochos are delicious and I use whole grain so it feels "healthy", and my borekas keep improving. What I found so interesting is the way in which different families used different versions of the dough -- from this Sephardic synagogue community cookbook from LA in the early 70's I started making a hot crust pastry for the borekas, and it really makes a nice flaky crust. Also, I've been slowly tweaking my mina de espinaka that I make for Passover every year -- I keep little post it notes of the changes I make each year, as I try to get just the right recipe. I've never made boyos, but I do have some recipes for them that I found in these old cookbooks. I really enjoy your books and I watched your Great Courses Plus course on the history of food last year. Food history is amazing.

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