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Burek

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The classic Belgrade breakfast order isn't really a sentence — it's just two words: 'burek, jogurt.'

Serbian burek is a coiled pastry of thin dough layered with minced meat, cheese, or potato, baked in a round pan and cut into wedges. It's sold at bakeries from early morning, wrapped in paper and eaten with a small cup of drinking yogurt to cut the richness.

Why it's made this way: Niš claims Serbia's first burek bakery, said to have opened under Ottoman rule in the late 15th century, and the yogurt pairing likely developed as a practical way to balance out such a heavy, oily pastry first thing in the morning.