Knafeh

Knafeh is a Dessert recipe from the Saudi Arabian tradition, as recorded in TheMealDB. The ingredients and the method below are the recorded ones. This site does not state preparation time, servings, difficulty or equipment, because the source does not record them.

Method

1. Step 1. 1
2. Step 2. Take kanfhe in a bowl and roughly cut them. Pour melted butter, yellow food color and mix well with your hands.
3. Step 3. In a separate bowl mix milk, cream cheese, sugar, cornstarch well.
4. Step 4. 2
5. Step 5. Turn on the flame and boil the liquid, when it gets thick turn off the flame let it cool down a little bit.
6. Step 6. Add mozzarella in it and mix it well.
7. Step 7. Now make a base with half of the kanfhe in a dish, gently press it to level the dough well.
8. Step 8. Pour the cheese mixture on the top and level it with a spoon.
9. Step 9. 3
10. Step 10. Cover it with the other half of the kanfhe.
11. Step 11. Put the dish in a preheated oven at 200 degree for about 20-25 minutes.
12. Step 12. It's ready when kunafa is golden and crunchy in the surface.
13. Step 13. 4
14. Step 14. 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.
15. Step 15. Evenly pour the syrup over the kunafa as soon as it comes out of the oven.
16. Step 16. Your kunafa is ready to serve.

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