Laz böreği

Laz böreği is a sweet pastry of thin yufka sheets around a milk pudding. The registered Hopa recipe uses eight sheets rolled from an egg and milk dough. Milk, sugar, flour and salt are heated until just before boiling. Eggs, yoghurt and black pepper are then whisked in. The pudding is poured over four buttered sheets, topped with sugar and butter, and baked for 45 minutes. The other four sheets go on top, each buttered, and it bakes at 170 °C until golden.

The Hopa Chamber of Commerce and Industry registered Hopa Laz böreği as a geographical indication on 8 January 2019. Hopa is a district of Artvin on the eastern Black Sea coast. The chamber's chairman says families served it to important guests on special days about 200 years ago. The Hopa version has no syrup and is eaten cold.

Dietary notes: milk, yoghurt, eggs, butter and wheat flour (gluten). Vegetarian, no nuts.