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brik

British  
/ brɪk /

noun

  1. a Tunisian deep-fried spicy pastry filled with fish or meat and sometimes an egg

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Etymology

Origin of brik

Arabic

Example Sentences

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In France, I saw baklava made with brik, a Middle Eastern pastry that’s like a cross between phyllo and giant, paper-thin crepes.

From Seattle Times

Karen Jurgensen, one of my fellow chef instructors at Seattle Culinary Academy, recently made baklava from brik that took the delightful form of crescent moons or horns.

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They stuff it in brik, the hot pastries of shatter-crisp dough.

From New York Times

“I need an order of the brik and saganaki!”

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Seated opposite Cushnie, drama and humanities instructor Steph Hankinson raised her eyebrows and smiled as she watched a runny egg yolk spill out of her brik, a samosa-shaped fried pastry.

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