Knafeh - Middle Eastern Recipe

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Knafeh

🌍 Middle Eastern, Palestine/Levant Difficulty: ●●●○○



Ingredients

  • 500g kadaif (shredded wheat)
  • 200g butter (melted)
  • 500g akkawi or mozzarella cheese (soaked to desalt)
  • 300ml sugar syrup (1:1 sugar/water + orange blossom water)
  • pistachios

Method

  1. Mixing — Mix kadaif with melted butter. Press half into greased pan.
  2. Layering — Layer cheese. Top with remaining kadaif, press down.
  3. Baking — Bake 200°C (400°F) 25 min until golden. Invert. Pour hot syrup. Garnish pistachios.