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Kunafa- Simple and Easy Middle Eastern food-appetizing dessert recipe

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.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Baking time 25 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings: 4
Course: Dessert, Party Food, Snack
Cuisine: Middle eastern
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

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

Equipment

  • Electric oven

Method
 

For base
  1. Dry roast the fried vermicelli(Pheni).
  2. Keep aside.
For filling
  1. Add 1 cup milk in a pan and boil.
  2. Add ¼ cup milk in a bowl.
  3. Add cornflour and mix well until there are no lumps formed.
  4. Add the cornflour mixture into the boiling milk and mix well.
  5. Make sure there aare no lumps formed and break if anything left.
  6. Add vanilla extract and keep aside.
For baking
  1. Grease a baking pan.
  2. Add the fried vermicelli.
  3. Use any flat bottom cup/bowl to press and flatten the fried vermicelli.
  4. Pour the filling on top of the vermicelli.
  5. Place the cheese.
  6. Spread the fried vermicelli on top of the cheese and press the vermicelli one more time.
Baking
  1. preheat the oven for 170c for 10 minutes.
  2. place the baking pan for 20 to 25 minutes or until the top turns into golden brown.
  3. When the kunafa is ready to serve,add a squeeze of lemon to the sugar syrup.
  4. Drizzle the sugar syrup on top of the kunafa.
  5. 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.