Knafeh

25 min • 8 servings

Ingredients

  • 400g Knafeh
  • 6 tablespoons Unsalted Butter
  • 1 pinch Yellow Food Colouring
  • 1 cup Mozzarella
  • 1/4 cup Cream Cheese
  • 1 1/2 cup Milk
  • 4 tablespoons Sugar
  • 2 tablespoons Corn Flour
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 cup Water
  • 1 tsp Rose water
  • 1/2 teaspoon Lemon Juice

Directions

  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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