Sig's Mediterranean Bake

Name: Sig's Mediterranean Bake
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 5 leaves stems removed darkest curly cabbage you can get, I use cavalero nero; 2 large Italian sweet, long red peppers; 3 spicy vegetarian or normal chorizo sausages; 3 quality vegetarian sausages, or three normal sausages; 2 slices of vegetarian bacon or real unsmoked bacon; 150 grams spicy cheese , I normally use chilly and apple cheddar; 200 ml fresh full fat milk; 1 large eggs; 2 sheets sac yufka or 6 sheets of filo pastry; 1 tbsp melted butter; 2 tbsp quality frying vegetable oil do not use olive oil

Sigrun @sigrun

German, living in England

This is beautiful as a vegetarian dish . You not normally need to add spices or herbs as there is enough spice and salt in the vegetarian sausages and the cheese. My granddaughter's boyfriend has the meat option and say it's a very tasty and great meal.
I prefer using the Sac Yufka rather than filo for this recipe. Important is that the parcel does not break and leaks .You could make these into individual parcels or make them very small and offer vegetarian or meat option .

Sigrun @sigrun

German, living in England

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Ingredients

4 servings

5leaves stems removed darkest curly cabbage you can get, I use cavalero nero
2 largeItalian sweet, long red peppers
3spicy vegetarian or normal chorizo sausages
3quality vegetarian sausages, or three normal sausages
2slices of vegetarian bacon or real unsmoked bacon
150 gramsspicy cheese , I normally use chilly and apple cheddar
200 mlfresh full fat milk
1 largeeggs
2sheets sac yufka or 6 sheets of filo pastry
1 tbspmelted butter
2 tbspquality frying vegetable oil do not use olive oil

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Steps

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First remove the cabbage leaves of their stems. Discard stems, chop leaves finely and par boil for ten minutes . Drain thoroughly. Set aside
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In the meantime , chop the sausages, the bacon and peppers. Grate the cheese.
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Now spread the melted butter over one of the sac yufka pastry sheets or 4 of the filo sheets .
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Lay the two yuk sheets together on top of each other (they are round and very large. Normally serve four people).If using filo take two sheets and butter and stuck together with a third unbuttered sheet they are normally much smaller and square or oblong, so you have to overlap them and need to make two parcels for four people this way
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Use a deep none stick baking pan to form a parcel. Place your prepared pastry into pan make sure there is enough pastry to overlap to make a good sealed parcel. Add all the filling as well as the cabbage .
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Mix the milk with the egg and pour over the mixture
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Now fold over the sides to seal the parcel well and chill for at least 15 minutes
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Gently heat your oil in frying pan Remove parcel from chiller and turn upside down into frying pan. let the parcel Cook from both sides until it is cooked and crispy brown and heated through.
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This is something between a pizza and a fritata, in Turkey it's called borek.
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I served with slow fried the smallest amount of oil crispy potatoes and fresh tomatoes
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