Turkish Kunefe
Turkish Kunefe

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, turkish kunefe. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Turkish Kunefe is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Turkish Kunefe is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Turkish Künefe Künefe is a crispy cheese-filled dessert made with kadayıf (kah-dah-YUF'), which is a traditional shredded wheat dessert with pistachio filling. Künefe is served hot out of the oven so the cheese is soft and stringy. Kunefe also known as kunafa is one of the heavenly Turkish desserts made with syrup. It is mostly served at kebab restaurants after the main course like doner kebab.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook turkish kunefe using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Turkish Kunefe:
  1. Prepare Syrup:
  2. Make ready 1 cup water
  3. Make ready 1 cup sugar
  4. Make ready 1 slice lemon
  5. Take Kunefe:
  6. Take 2 cups shredded raw kadayif dough
  7. Take 100 g butter
  8. Make ready 1 tablespoon extra butter to brush the pans
  9. Take 150 g Cream Cheese
  10. Take 200 g unsalted melting cheese, (mozzarella is ok)
  11. Take 1 tablespoon ground pistachios for topping

Our perception of the world of desserts was irrevocably turned upside down when we tasted our first künefe. Who would've known (maybe besides the Turkish) that such a divine fusion of art and delicacy exists? The uber-crisp shreds of phyllo dough sandwich a strata of savory, stringy cheese, and the whole mishmash. Turkish künefe and Turkish tea In the Hatay region of Turkey, which was formerly part of Syria and has a large Arab population, the pastry is called künefe and the wiry shreds are called tel kadayıf.

Steps to make Turkish Kunefe:
  1. Start with preparing the syrup. Pour water, sugar and a slice of lemon in a pot. Bring it to boil.
  2. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 15 minutes until it gets a little thicker. Let it cool.
  3. Melt butter, bring it to room temperature and coat kadayif noodles with butter very well.
  4. Brush the bottom of two 9-inch pans with melted butter.
  5. Spread the buttered kadayif noodles in the pans evenly.
  6. Spread cream cheese on the buttered kadyafi, Toss over shredded unsalted cheese evenly.
  7. Cover the cheese with the remaining kadayif noodles and press on them with your hand.
  8. Over the lowest heat on the stove, cook it until the bottom is golden. Carefully place one of the extra pans on it and flip the dessert into that extra pan. Now golden side is on the top. Cook the other side until golden as well.
  9. Repeat this for the second portion. Pour cold syrup over them as soon as you remove them from the stove. Let them absorb the syrup and serve immediately while it’s still hot with ground pistachios on the top.
  10. Please don't forget to tag @appetizing.adventure on Instagram with a picture if you try this recipe!

The uber-crisp shreds of phyllo dough sandwich a strata of savory, stringy cheese, and the whole mishmash. Turkish künefe and Turkish tea In the Hatay region of Turkey, which was formerly part of Syria and has a large Arab population, the pastry is called künefe and the wiry shreds are called tel kadayıf. A semi-soft cheese such as Urfa peyniri (cheese of Urfa) or Hatay peyniri (cheese of Hatay), made of raw milk, is used in the filling. Make Turkish Kunefe or knafeh at home Knafeh is a delicious and rich treat, made with unripened cheese that's baked in shredded phyllo dough before being soaked in simple syrup. I tried Kunefe while I was in Saudi Arabia.

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