8-10
Saudi Arabian
Knafeh
Allergens: Gluten, Milk
Levantine knafeh: crisp shredded pastry over molten cheese, soaked in syrup.
Ingredients
- Sugar 1 cup
- Lemon 0.5 tsp
- Butter 6 tbsp
- Cream cheese 0.25 cup
- Milk 1.5 cup
- Mozzarella 1 cup
- Cornflour 2 tbsp
- Food colouring 1 pinch
- Rose water 1 tsp
- Knafeh pastry 400 g
Method
- 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.