Crispy Cheese Knafeh
Crisp golden pastry encasing gooey melted cheese, drenched in fragrant rose and lemon sugar syrup.
Ingredients
400g kataifi pastry (knafeh dough)400g
6 tbsp (85g) unsalted butter, melted250g
1 pinch yellow food colouring38ml
125g shredded mozzarella250g
60g cream cheese200g
360ml whole milk1L
250g granulated sugar1kg
2 tbsp cornflour500g
1 tsp rose water100ml
1/2 tsp fresh lemon juice1 unit
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.
Cost to cook
6
serves 6 ·
Mostly estimated prices. Full-pack shop cost · about £6.47 of it is what this recipe actually uses.
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Tesco Asda
£11.05 est. · serves 6