Kunafa- Simple and Easy middle eastern food
Knafeh,knafah or kunafa is a middle eastern pastry or dessert recipe popularly served in most of the festive days.
Equipment
- Electric oven
Ingredients
- 200 gm pheni fried vermicelli
- ¼ cup Crushed pistachio
For filling
- 1¼ cup Milk
- 1½ tbsp Corn flour
- ¼ tsp Vanilla essence/extract
For sugar syrup
- 4 tsp Sugar
- ¼ cup Water
Instructions
For base
- Dry roast the fried vermicelli(Pheni).
- Keep aside.
For filling
- Add 1 cup milk in a pan and boil.
- Add ¼ cup milk in a bowl.
- Add cornflour and mix well until there are no lumps formed.
- Add the cornflour mixture into the boiling milk and mix well.
- Make sure there aare no lumps formed and break if anything left.
- Add vanilla extract and keep aside.
For baking
- Grease a baking pan.
- Add the fried vermicelli.
- Use any flat bottom cup/bowl to press and flatten the fried vermicelli.
- Pour the filling on top of the vermicelli.
- Place the cheese.
- Spread the fried vermicelli on top of the cheese and press the vermicelli one more time.
Baking
- preheat the oven for 170c for 10 minutes.
- place the baking pan for 20 to 25 minutes or until the top turns into golden brown.
- When the kunafa is ready to serve,add a squeeze of lemon to the sugar syrup.
- Drizzle the sugar syrup on top of the kunafa.
- Sprinkle the crushed pistachio on the top and serve warm.
Notes
- If you like rose water, add rose water in sugar syrup to enhance the flavour and taste of the dessert.
- I used a blender to crush the pistachio.
- You can add rose water in the filling too. If you prefer to add after you remove the milk mixture from heat.
- You can add almonds if you prefer so.