Cheese Kunafa (Arabian Dessert)
- By: Zurana Masud
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- | On: April 3 2016
Description
Cheese Kunafa (Arabian Dessert)
Cheese Kunafa (Arabian Dessert)
Ingredients
- For Shemai Dough:
- Lachcha Semai/Thin sheets of unleavened flour dough/Kunafa Dough - 1 packet 200 gm
- Butter - 1/4 tablespoon melted
- Milk - 1/4 cup
- Orange Food Color - 1 teaspoon
- For Sugar Syrup:
- Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
- Water - 1 cup
- lemon juice/white vinegar - 1 teaspoon
- Rose Water - 1 teaspoon
- For Filling:
- cream Cheese - 200 gm
- Fresh Cream - 1/2 cup
- Channa/Ricotta Cheese - 1/2 cup blended
- sugar - 1/4 cup
- For Garnishing:
- Pistachio - 1/2 cup finely chopped
Instructions
Dough Preparation:
- Preheat your oven to 180 degree C.
- Grease a 7" inch baking pan with one teaspoon butter and food color. Keep aside.
- Break into small pieces of lachcha semai. Mix melted butter and milk with semai well until it is all absorbed.
- Keep aside.
Filling Preparation:
- Blend channa until smooth paste.
- Take a bowl and put into all filling ingredients.
- Whisk with a electric bitter or hand mixture until smooth batter. Keep aside.
Making Sugar Syrup:
- Boil sugar and water in a wide sauce pan.
- Add rose water. Keep stirring until sugar dissolve completely. Keep aside.
Making and Baking Kunafa:
- Take two third the dough that you mixed the butter with and place it in pan. Press down and along the sides of the pan. Using both hands, pat down the dough well until you can't see the bottom of the pan.
- Now pour prepared filling evenly all over the kunafa dough.
- Then, cover with the remaining one third of the dough. Press well with the palms of your hand or use a spatula.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 50 minutes.
- Let the kunafa cool down at room temperature.
Pour the Sugar Syrup:
- Pour the sugar syrup over top of the cooled kunafa.
- Loosen the edges of the kunafa using a knife before overturn it to a suitable dish.
- Before serving decorate with chopped/ground pistachio.
- Slice and serve at room temperature.
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