How to make Chebureki at home, the best Chebureki recipe. A national dish of the Crimean Tatars and traditional for the Caucasian and Turkic peoples, it is also popular as snack and street food throughout Transcaucasia, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, as well as with the Crimean Tatar diasporas in Turkey and Romania. Never heard of chebureki? Well, if you haven't been to Eastern Europe, that's not surprising! Over there it's a massively popular street food, and it's not so different from a Mexican empanada .The Chebureki consist of a thin layer of dough and a ground meat filling, then deepfried in a skillet of real butter. I call them a meat filled turnover as they are made the same, except the filling is meat. Chebureki is made from unleavened dough filled with ground meat, onions and spices, fried in oil. It is a common street food in Russia and other former exUSSR countries. Chebureki can be a nice appetizer or main dish, they look awesome and taste great.