Kunefe (A Sweet Cheese Pastry Made with Kadaifi)
A Turkish dish of ricotta cheese, phyllo dough and buffalo mozzarella, seasoned with nutmeg and rose water and baked in the oven. It's finished with shredded pastry.
1 hr · Serves 8 · Medium
Ingredients
Method
Start cooking mode- Prep 15 min · Cook 45 min · 60 min total
- medium
- 1
Preheat oven to 375ºF. Place kadafi in a food processor and chop up finely. Add butter and milk and line a 8 inch square heavy baking dish with half of this mixture.
- 2
Mix the cheeses with the pistachios, sugar& nutmeg and spread onto shredded filo. Top with the remaining shredded pastry.
- 3
Bake for 45 minutes. Make a sugar syrup by boiling water with sugar and lemon juice. Cook until reduced by a third and it becomes nice and thick.
- 4
Stir in rose water to taste. When kunefe comes out of the oven, ladle 2/3 of the hot syrup over it and save the rest to pass while eating. Serve hot.
Notes and swaps
- Not assessed yet. Check each ingredient if you have an allergy.
