Sweet Cheese Pastry (Knafeh) Recipe
Sweet Cheese Pastry (Knafeh) Recipe - Popular throughout the Levant, this syrup-soaked cheese dessert is unremarkably encased amongst kataifi pastry, but this recipe from Sydney's modern Lebanese eating theatre Embers Mezze Bar uses a crushed Corn Flakes as well as semolina mixture instead. The golden crust, topped amongst rose petals as well as pistachios, barely contains the molten cheese centre. Serves 20 Preparation 30min Cooking 1hr Skill degree Mid Sweet Cheese Pastry (Knafeh) Recipe Ingredients 160 g unsalted butter, melted 440 g Corn Flakes, finely crushed 4¼ cups milk 110 g (½ cup) caster sugar ninety g (¾ cup) fine semolina 600 ml thickened cream one tbsp cornflour one tsp rosewater (see Note) 500 g mozzarella, coarsely grated rose petals (dried) (see Note) as well as pistachios, to serve Ater (sugar syrup) 440 g (2 cups) caster sugar ½ tsp lemon juice ½ tsp rosewater (see Note) Cook's notes Oven temperatures are for conventional; i...