Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, turkish kunefe. One of my favorites. 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 well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Turkish Kunefe is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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 recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have turkish kunefe using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Turkish Kunefe:
- Prepare Syrup:
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Take 1 cup sugar
- Take 1 slice lemon
- Make ready Kunefe:
- Get 2 cups shredded raw kadayif dough
- Prepare 100 g butter
- Prepare 1 tablespoon extra butter to brush the pans
- Make ready 150 g Cream Cheese
- Get 200 g unsalted melting cheese, (mozzarella is ok)
- Get 1 tablespoon ground pistachios for topping
Turkish Kunefe Kunefe is a traditional Turkish dessert made with cheese pastries soaked in sweet, sugar-based syrup. Kunefe is cooked by rotating on low heat in special trays of various sizes according to the number of servings desired. Then, the other side is cooked in the same way by reversing skillfully. Our perception of the world of desserts was irrevocably turned upside down when we tasted our first künefe.
Steps to make Turkish Kunefe:
- Start with preparing the syrup. Pour water, sugar and a slice of lemon in a pot. Bring it to boil.
- Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 15 minutes until it gets a little thicker. Let it cool.
- Melt butter, bring it to room temperature and coat kadayif noodles with butter very well.
- Brush the bottom of two 9-inch pans with melted butter.
- Spread the buttered kadayif noodles in the pans evenly.
- Spread cream cheese on the buttered kadyafi, Toss over shredded unsalted cheese evenly.
- Cover the cheese with the remaining kadayif noodles and press on them with your hand.
- 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.
- 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.
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Then, the other side is cooked in the same way by reversing skillfully. 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.
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