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Bourekas are common Sephardic cooking. Sephardim are Jews who hail from the Mediterranean basin and Arab lands. Many in Montreal’s Jewish community came here from Israel or Morocco.
Pastries similar to bourekas are common to many countries in the same part of the world. In Armenian cooking, they are called beoregs and the fillings can savoury or sweet. In Turkey, according to Claudia Roden who has written standard reference works on both Jewish and Middle Eastern cooking, boerek means pie while börek means a cigar. They are often sold as pies, but equally, you can find them made from thin, sheets of pastry, rolled to look like a cigar, and filled with minced meat or grated cheese.
The bourekas sold in Jewish grocery stores and bakeries resemble small empenadas. Traditionally they are shaped into half moons, but here it is common to see them in several smaller sizes such as rectangles and tubes since their shape indicates what’s inside.
Many stores sell bourekas but it is worthwhile to go to a place that bakes them. Adar is Montreal’s leading Sephardic bakery. There are usually a half dozen freshly made varieties available including a mildly peppery "spicy tuna." Adar at 5458 Westminster is in a strip mall near Côte St- Luc Road (514.484.1189). Kosher Quality Delicatessen, at 5855 Victoria Avenue (514.731.7883) also has several kinds of bourekas. Neither store is open on Friday evenings or Saturday.
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