Kunafa

Sajid Iqbal —

How’s this for a tasty dessert dish! Learn how to make the Lebanese kunafa with kunafa pastry- found in Arab/Mediterranean groceries- and soft cheese (Philadelphia style).

Preparation time
25 minutes
Cooking time
20 minutes
Number of servings
6
Ingredients
5 cups kataifi shredded pastry
4 tbsp BBQ ghee (melted)
8 table spoons of soft cheese
3 tbsp plain yoghurt
2 tbsp rose water
1 tbsp pine nuts(roasted and chopped)
Ingredients for sugar syrup
1 ½ cup sugar
2 cup water
1 tbsp orange flavoured water (optional)
Recipe instruction

Grease a shallow oven dish.

Separately place the shredded pastry in a large bowl and add the BBQ ghee and mix thoroughly. Then take half of this mixture and arrange in the greased dish.

Next mix the soft cheese, sugar, rose water and yoghurt until you get a smooth mixture. Then pipe a layer of the soft cheese mixture, sprinkle the chopped pine nuts and finish with the remaining shredded pastry mixture. Bake it in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes at 180C or until it is golden.

In the meantime prepare the sugar syrup by boiling the sugar, water and orange flavoured water together for about ten minutes.

Pour the sugar syrup on top and the dish is ready to serve.

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