Kunafeh with nuts
Kunafeh with nuts

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, kunafeh with nuts. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

In Lebanon, you can find kunafeh filled with ashta, a floral-scented clotted cream, while in Palestine the knafeh is stuffed with local brined nablusi cheese instead. Knafeh (Kanafeh/Künefe) is an astonishingly good dessert, the flavors are wonderful, and will fill your mouth with pure joy. Variations of kunafeh are popular throughout the region, bordering on obsession.

Kunafeh with nuts is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Kunafeh with nuts is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kunafeh with nuts using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Kunafeh with nuts:
  1. Make ready For kunafeh mix:
  2. Make ready 500 gram ready Kunafa dough
  3. Take 100 g unsalted melted butter
  4. Make ready 1 tablespoon powder sugar
  5. Take 1 tablespoon grape molasses or honey
  6. Take 1 teaspoon liquid yellow food colouring (optional)
  7. Prepare For the filling:
  8. Prepare 250 grams Nuts roasted and crushed coarse (almond -pistcshios -hazelnuts)
  9. Get 50 g seedless raisins
  10. Take 50 g fine grated coconut
  11. Prepare 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder
  12. Make ready For the syrup:
  13. Make ready 2 cups white sugar
  14. Take 11/2 cups water
  15. Prepare 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  16. Make ready For serving:
  17. Get Coarse grinded pistachios
  18. Take ice cream  with  your favorite flavor
  19. Take Requirements:  suitable oven try with diameter of 30 cm greased with little butter

Kunafeh, also spelt varyingly as kanafeh and knafe, is a Middle Eastern sweet made from shredded filo pastry (called Kataifi/Qatayfi pastry) stuffed with delicious gooey cheese drenched in scented sugar. Knafeh, kunafeh, konafa, all different ways of pronouncing one of the most popular Egyptians however fill their knafeh with a rich cream and don't tend to infuse their sugar. Knafeh is a Middle Eastern dessert with a shredded filo dough crust, a sweet cheese filling, topped with a flavored simple syrup. Knafeh is a traditional dessert which is very popular in the Levant region of the Middle East and which is originally from Nablus, a prominent city in the West Bank of Palestine.

Steps to make Kunafeh with nuts:
  1. To prepare the syrup: In a saucepan over a medium heat, melt the sugar and water and let it boil for 7 minutes, then add the lemon juice and boil for another 3 minutes, then remove of the fire and let it cool completely.
  2. Keep Kunafa dough in a wide tray and then cut it to small chunks by scissors.
  3. Add food coloring to melted butter then pitched over Kunafa dough and then add the powdered sugar and grape molasses and mix well until homogeneous.
  4. Spread half kunafeh dough in the oven tray and press it by hand and level the surface.
  5. Mix the filling ingredients together and then spread it over the first layer of Kunafa and press by hand , then cover with the second half of Kunafa dough and press by hand and level the surface .
  6. Place the tray in the oven at a temperature of 180 C on the middle shelf and heat from the top and bottom for the duration of 25-30 minutes until cooked and golden .
  7. Pour the cool syrup on kunafeh and let it cool for 20 min. before serving with pistachios and icecream.

Kadayifi is the Greek name of this sweet - in Turkish it is known as. Knafeh Na'ameh (which literally translates to Smooth Knafeh) is very different from its frizzer, coarser, shaggy-looking sister, that seems to be more known to the world. Next time I saw it being sold, I raved about it to my husband and we I had kunafeh at Al-Sham Sweets and Pastries in NYC. It was incredible but now i can't eat it. Knafeh is one of the popular desserts in the levant (Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon) and in Turkey.

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