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My Famous Cheese Knafeh! is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. My Famous Cheese Knafeh! is something which I have loved my entire life.
Knafeh is an iconic Middle Eastern dessert of shredded qataifi pastry (or kataifi, per the Greek spelling), encasing gloriously stretchy sweet cheese, studded with almonds and doused in rose and orange blossom syrup. Over an afternoon, I snapped and scribbled away, learning Seedo's famous recipe. Knafeh (Middle Eastern Pastry Dessert) Recipe.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have my famous cheese knafeh! using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make My Famous Cheese Knafeh!:
- Get 500 g knafeh dough, or mafroukeh
- Get 500 g akkawi cheese, if available, or any other unsalted white cheese like mozzarella
- Make ready 1/2 cup fine semolina, ferkha flour
- Take 200 g butter
- Take For the Sugar syrup:
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Get 1 1/2 cups water
- Get 1 teaspoon rose water
- Prepare 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
- Get 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Made with shredded phyllo dough, ricotta, and mozzarella to create a fascinating dessert swimming in orange-blossom syrup and crushed pistachios. Knafeh is shredded phyllo dough (find it in Middle Eastern markets) which is filled here with a wonderful cheese blend for a melty, salty-sweet (mostly The knafeh was the saving grace that morning. We were driving from Beirut to Tripoli on a quest, my quest, to see the famous Hallab bakery at its source. The savory cheese mellows the sweetness of the dish, while adding chewy texture to contrast the phyllo's crunch.
Instructions to make My Famous Cheese Knafeh!:
- To get a completely unsalted cheese, soak in water for 24 hr. Make sure to change the water 4 to 5 times.
- To prepare the sugar syrup: put the sugar and water in a small saucepan and place over medium heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Leave to boil then add the lemon juice and keep on medium heat for 10 min until the syrup thickens. Add the orange blossom water and rose water. Remove from heat and transfer to a large bowl.
- Spread the knafeh dough in a 35 cm diameter baking pan forming a layer of around 1.5 cm in thickness. Bake the dough in the oven at medium heat, until the bottom and the side of the dough turn golden in color.
- Cut the cheese in small cubes and place them in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir until the water oozes out. Discard the water.
- Add in the fine semolina and ½ cup of the syrup and mix. When the cheese mixture starts boiling, remove from heat and pour over the baked knafeh dough.
- Place a large serving tray over the knafeh pan and turn the pan upside down. Let the knafeh drop on the serving tray while slowly removing the pan.
- Cut the knafeh into square pieces and serve warm with sugar syrup.
It's baked in cast iron until the phyllo is evenly browned and crisped through, then covered in an orange blossom syrup, sprinkled with Sicilian pistachios, and served warm. We have been lucky enough to try the famous Knafeh (pronounced 'Ka-na-feh') from the Knafeh Jerusalem street food truck which travels around Knafeh is a Middle Eastern dessert and tastes like a baked custard with crunchy topping. It is a sweet cheese or cream dessert which is topped with. Easy Knafeh recipe to make at home using mozzarella and mascarpone. Also spelt as Kunafeh & Kanafeh, it's a popular Middle Eastern sweet.
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