“Can I have burek and yoghurt, please!”

According to the first records mentioning burek in 1498, first burek in Serbia had been made in Niš, and the first burek maker was a Turkish baker called Mehmed Oğlu. Nowadays Niš is a host to the only burek making contest in the Balkan region.

Бурек са чварцима дуг два метра, за Гиниса (Vanja Keser) Source: Vanja Keser

Burek (meat pie) is the most famous breakfast food in Serbia and the only pastry baked in specialized bakeries – burek pastry shops.

In Serbian Southern city of Niš there is even the only Balkan contest of this kind, burek making contest –Burekdžijada, and in 2012 British newspapers The Guardian awarded it with 5th place on the best fast food list in the whole world.

This August at “Burekdžijada” festival in Niš a burek two metars wide in diameter was made and is considered to be the biggest burek ever made. Local bakers called it “the Guinness burek”.

Mr Bratislav Vukadinovic is the President of Bakers Association of Serbia and he told us more.