A pastry-wrapped filled food, variant spelling of burek; a Middle Eastern or Balkan savory pastry typically filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables.
From Turkish börek, ultimately from Persian buryan 'wrapped.' The spelling burez represents one of several English transliterations of this word from Turkic and Persian sources.
The burez shows how Ottoman cuisine spread across three continents—you'll find similar pastries called börek in Turkey, burek in Bosnia, and burekakia in Greece, all with slightly different fillings.
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