How To Make Buredžici: Meat Pie Topped With Sour Cream, Yogurt & Garlic
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Written by Aida Ibišević, from Balkan Lunch Box, a blog about the art of Balkan cuisine.
Buredžici are delicious rows of meat pie crowned with a sour cream, yogurt, and garlic topping. They are a diminutive form of burek with a couple of differences that make them unique.
The pronunciation can be challenging, but if you’d like to give it a shot, it sounds something like: ‘booh-reh-gee-tzee.’ The plural form is always used. Don’t ask for one buredžik, or you might get just one bite.
Hailing from Herzegovina, these bites of deliciousness are also found in most Sarajevo buregdžinica (a fast-food type restaurant that sells Balkan pies, also known as pitas).
In shape and preparation, buredžici are similar to mantije, another burek-like specialty coming from the Sandžak region in Serbia, although by some accounts, buredžici require more dough. In Muslim families,…
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