Knafeh
Crisp golden pastry over molten cheese, drenched in rose syrup — the dessert that stretches and shines.
- Total
- 60 min
- Serves
- 4
The Middle East's most theatrical dessert: shredded kataifi pastry layered over a molten cheese filling, baked golden and crisp, then drowned in rose-scented sugar syrup the moment it leaves the oven. The contrast — crackling pastry, stretchy warm cheese, fragrant syrup — is pure occasion. Serve hot, while the cheese still pulls.
Ingredients
- 400g Knafeh
- 6 tablespoons Unsalted Butter
- 1 pinch Yellow Food Colouring
- 1 cup Mozzarella
- 1/4 cup Cream Cheese
- 1 1/2 cup Milk
- 4 tablespoons Sugar
- 2 tablespoons Corn Flour
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Water
- 1 tsp Rose water
- 1/2 teaspoon Lemon Juice
Instructions
- Take kanfhe in a bowl and roughly cut them. Pour melted butter, yellow food color and mix well with your hands.
- In a separate bowl mix milk, cream cheese, sugar, cornstarch well.
- Turn on the flame and boil the liquid, when it gets thick turn off the flame let it cool down a little bit.
- Add mozzarella in it and mix it well.
- Now make a base with half of the kanfhe in a dish, gently press it to level the dough well.
- Pour the cheese mixture on the top and level it with a spoon.
- Cover it with the other half of the kanfhe.
- Put the dish in a preheated oven at 200 degree for about 20-25 minutes.
- It's ready when kunafa is golden and crunchy in the surface.
- Boil water in a pan and dissolve sugar in it for 4–5 minutes. OR cook it until slightly thicken and keep on stirring. Add lemon juice with rose water, mix well.
- Evenly pour the syrup over the kunafa as soon as it comes out of the oven.
- Your kunafa is ready to serve.
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 550
- Protein
- 12 g
- Fat
- 25 g
- Carbs
- 70 g
Adapted from cookpad.com. Rewritten and re-photographed by MealIdeas.
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