Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cheese kunafa. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Typically, cheese kunafa, like Nabulsia or knafeh bil jibn, are filled with Arabic cheeses with melting qualities like Nabulsi or Akkawi cheese. But I'm making it with pizza's best friend, Mozzarella. PLEASE NOTE DEFROZE THE KUNAFA DOUGH BEFORE MAKING Hi all.
Cheese Kunafa is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Cheese Kunafa is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have cheese kunafa using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cheese Kunafa:
- Take 500 gm Kunafa , raw (kataifi)
- Make ready 6 tablespoons Butter
- Take 2 cups Milk
- Take 2 tablespoons Semolina
- Get 4 tablespoons Sugar
- Take 1 tablespoon Vanilla
- Make ready 1/2 cup cream Double (or whipping )
- Make ready 2 cups Mozzarella cheese
- Get 2 cups Sugar
- Make ready 1 cup Water
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Lemon juice
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Orange blossom
Kunafa Recipe is known as Queen of Arabic dessert. It is most royal and supreme dessert made up of mozzarella cheese and vermicelli, which gives crisp and crunchy finishing. Kunafa is like the Middle East's version of a cheese danish. Although kunafa is popular in many parts of the Middle East, it is apparently native the ancient Palestinian city of Nablus, on the West Bank.
Steps to make Cheese Kunafa:
- Make the syrup by mixing sugar and water in a pan over medium heat for approx 10 min. When it is thickened, add lemon juice and orange blossom and stir for 2 more minutes. Let it to cool down completely.
- Preheat oven 170°C.
- Melt the butter in a pan.
- Place the raw kunafa dough in a big bowl and separate, crush fine, add the mealted butter and mix it very well.
- Transfer half of the buttered kunafa dough into a cake pan and spread it evenly to make into a smooth base.
- Make a custard by whisking the milk and semolina over a medium heat until it becomes thick. Then add one tablespoon orange blossom, sugar and vanilla. Gradually add double ceam and thin the custard to a loose texture.
- Pour this mixture over the kunafa base and spread the mozzarella cheese on top. Cover this with the remaining half of the kunafa dough. Gently press down and make it like a flat surface.
- Place it in the oven bake until the top becomes golden brown.
- Remove the tray from the oven and pour the sugar syrup immedietly on top of the kunafa. Now this us ready to serve.
Find kunafa stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. The cheese filling is traditionally made from Nabulsi cheese that is desalted. The ricotta-mozzarella mix is a great substitute, and lower-fat products can be used. If you have access to a Middle Eastern.
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