Kunafa
Baking and Desserts | Turkish cuisine
⏳ Time
1 hour 30 minutes
🥕 Ingredients
10
🍽️ Servings
4
Description
Kunafa
Ingredients
- Wheat Flour - 14.1 oz
- Salt - a pinch
- Chicken Egg - 1 piece
- Butter - 7.1 oz
- Sugar - 0.1 oz
- Water - 7 fl oz
- Vegetable Oil - to taste
- Lemon - 1 piece
- Cardamom - a pinch
- Honey - to taste
Step by Step guide
Step 1
Mix water, flour, salt, and eggs to make a liquid batter that resembles pancake batter. It is important to thoroughly mix all lumps, even the smallest ones. Place the resulting batter in a plastic pastry bag (you can use a ziplock bag) and cut only the very tip so that the stream of batter is as thin as possible.
Step 2
Turn on medium heat. In a heated skillet, greased with vegetable oil or lard, quickly and confidently apply thin strands of batter. They should not be fried until golden brown; keep them for literally 5–10 seconds and then remove. Of course, fry only on one side.
Step 3
First, prepare the syrup (you can use melted honey instead of syrup for the kunafa, adding a little water to it), because it needs time to cool. Combine water and sugar, add lemon juice and cardamom. Cook over medium heat for about 5–7 minutes.
Step 4
Next, crumble the kataifi dough. You can do this by hand, but it's better in a food processor to get uniform small 'noodles' of dough.
Step 5
Melt the butter.
Step 6
Combine the crumbled dough with the melted butter and mix thoroughly.
Step 7
Spread half of the dough into a baking dish and lightly press it down with your hands. It's best to choose a dish from which the kunafa can be served. For example, a low tart pan. Then you can skip using parchment paper.
Step 8
Then layer raisins and crushed pistachios, leaving 1/3 of the nuts for decoration.
Step 9
And cover everything with the remaining dough, lightly pressing it down with your hands.
Step 10
Bake the kunafa at 392°F until golden brown. Drizzle hot kunafa with syrup and garnish with nuts.
Step 11
Bake the kunafa until golden brown, remove from the oven, and drizzle with syrup.
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