Chef's notes
Yield: 11-12 triangles. Crunchy on the outside, juicy on the inside, with complex Moroccan-ish flavors. Good with yogurt.
Meal prepper? Freeze them unbaked, then put a frozen one directly in the air fryer or hot oven.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 40 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 25 min in air fryer at 190 C; probably longer in a conventional oven
- 🍽️ Servings: 11-12 triangles
Ingredients
- Lots of butter
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 1 kg ground beef
- 2 tsp paprika
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp or less chili powder
- 1 tsp ground allspice
- 1 500-gr package of phyllo sheets (кори in Bulgaria) -- about 12 sheets
Directions
- Saute the onion in about 30g of butter. Add the beef and brown it.
- Add the spices and simmer for a while.
- If there's more than a little oil, strain the beef. Optionally, also zap it with an immersion blender to make a finer, smoother mix.
- Melt a fair amount of butter, such as 50 gr.
- Spread out one phyllo sheet in portrait mode (taller than it is wide). Drizzle butter on it.
- From the left edge, fold in one third of the sheet. Then fold in one third from the right. Now you have a narrower sheet of phyllo.
- Drizzle the sheet with more melted butter.
- Near the bottom edge of the phyllo sheet, put a big spoonful of the beef mixture.
- Pick up the lower right corner of the sheet and fold it up to meet the left edge, making a triangle with the beef inside.
- Fold that triangle up, aligning its edge with the edge of the phyllo.
- Keep folding the triangle up until you reach the end of the phyllo.
- Paint the whole thing with more melted butter and set it aside.
- Repeat with more phyllo and beef until you run out of ingredients. You should get about 11 triangles.
- If you want to freeze them for baking one at a time later, freeze them now. Later, you can pull out a frozen triangle and put it directly in the air fryer (190 C for 25 minutes or so).
- If you want to bake one now: air fryer at 190 C for about 18 minutes; conventional oven might be 180 C for 30 minutes..