Knafeh
A Saudi Arabian dessert. Ready in about 55 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 50 minPrep (about)
- 5 minCook (about)
- 55 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
- 7 oz knafeh
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 pinch yellow food colouring
- ½ cup mozzarella
- 2 tbsp cream cheese
- ¾ cup milk
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp corn flour Shopping tip: Cornstarch (UK: cornflour).
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup water
- ½ tsp rose water
- ¼ tsp lemon juice
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Take kanfhe in a bowl plus roughly cut them.
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Pour melted butter, yellow food color.
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Mix well with your hands.
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Cream cheese, sugar, cornstarch well in a separate bowl mix milk.
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Turn on the flame.
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Boil your liquid, when it gets thick turn off your flame let it cool down little bit.
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Add mozzarella in it.
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Mix it well.
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Make a base using half of the kanfhe in a dish, press it to level the dough well.
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Pour the cheese mix on the top plus level it with a spoon.
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Cover it using the other half of the kanfhe.
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Put the dish in a heat the oven at 200 degree for around 20-25 minutes.
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It's ready when is golden and crunchy in the surface.
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Boil water in a pan plus dissolve sugar in it for 4–5 min.
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OR cook it until slightly thicken.
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Keep on stirring.
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Add lemon juice with rose water.
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Mix well.
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Pour your syrup over your kunafa as soon as comes out of the oven.
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Your kunafa is ready to serve.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.