Best Kunefe Recipes

KUNEFE (A SWEET CHEESE PASTRY MADE WITH KADAIFI)

Steps:

• 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.
• Mix the cheeses with the pistachios, sugar& nutmeg and spread onto shredded filo.
• Top with the remaining shredded pastry.
• 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.
• 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.

KUNEFE

Steps:

• For the syrup: Put the sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring it to a boil, lower the heat to medium low and simmer until it thickens a bit, 10 to 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the syrup cool to room temperature.
• For the kunefe: Cut the kadayif into small pieces and put it in a large bowl. Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter, add it to the bowl and mix with a spoon to make sure all of the kadayif pieces are coated in butter.
• Coat the bottoms of two 5-inch kunefe pans completely with 1 tablespoon of the butter. Spoon out a quarter of the kadayif mixture into one of the pans, spread and press down using a spoon. Crumble 1 ounce of the sweet cheese onto the kadayif, leaving about a 1/2-inch border on all sides. Top with another quarter of the kadayif mixture and press with your hands.
• Place the pan over medium-low heat and cook until golden on the bottom (there will be an aroma of toasted nuts), 4 to 6 minutes. Place the other prepared pan over the kunefe and flip (be careful, the pan is hot). Place it back on the heat and cook uncovered until the underside is golden, 4 to 6 minutes. Remove from the heat, drizzle 1/4 cup of the syrup all over the kunefe and top with 1 tablespoon of the ground pistachios. Re-butter the pans and repeat with the remaining kadayif, cheese, syrup and pistachios. Serve immediately with extra syrup for drizzling.

TURKISH KüNEFE RECIPE - (4.4/5)

Steps:

• 1. For the syrup, boil sugar and water in a large saucepan. Reduce the heat and allow it to simmer while adding in lemon juice and orange blossom water. Stir well and set aside to cool. 2. Cut shredded phyllo dough into bits and loosen them slightly. 3. Drizzle melted butter and milk onto the dough in batches and mix well with your hands until they are evenly incorporated. For large clumps, loosen them with your fingers. 4. Using metals rings (about 8cm wide, 2 to 2.5cm thick), fill the bottom and sides with 2 heaped tablespoons of shredded phyllo dough. Slightly compress using the back of a spoon. Next, top up 2 heaped tablespoons of cheese, compress again and pack in with another 2 heaped tablespoons of shredded phyllo dough to seal in the cheese. 5. Heat up a large pan and add in some butter. Scoop up the künefe with a cake server and carefully placed it in the pan. Fry each side for 3 minutes or until golden brown. Remove metal rings along the way and transfer onto a serving plate. 6. Drizzle syrup and sprinkle ground pistachios to taste! Ready to dig in!

KUNEFE RECIPE - (4.6/5)

Steps:

• 1 Preheat oven to 375ºF. 2 Place kadafi in a food processor and chop up finely. 3 Add butter and milk and line a 8 inch square heavy baking dish with half of this mixture. 4 Mix the cheeses with the pistachios, sugar& nutmeg and spread onto shredded filo. 5 Top with the remaining shredded pastry. 6 Bake for 45 minutes. 7 Make a sugar syrup by boiling water with sugar and lemon juice. 8 Cook until reduced by a third and it becomes nice and thick. 9 Stir in rose water to taste. 10 When kunefe comes out of the oven, ladle 2/3 of the hot syrup over it and save the rest to pass while eating. 11 Serve hot. Read more: http://www.food.com/recipe/kunefe-a-sweet-cheese-pastry-made-with-kadaifi-74792?oc=linkback

KUNEFE

Steps:

• Make sugar syrup by adding sugar and a cup of water to a pan. Bring to boil without stirring, once sugar dissolves squeeze lemon juice and add rose water. Bring down to a simmer. Do not stir. The syrup is ready once it thickens. Set aside to cool. In a bowl, toss Knafeh pastry, break it apart, mix with ghee or melted butter. Layer the Knafeh pastry in a pan and pack down tightly, top with mascarpone and over that sprinkle crushed nuts, desiccated coconut and sultanas, adding the second layer of Knafeh and pack down tightly. Place pan in a pre-heated oven - 350 to 375 degrees - and bake until golden brown, for approximately 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven and pour syrup. Cool, sprinkle crushed pistachios and rose petals, and serve.