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; if using fan-forced (convection), trim the temperature yesteryear 20˚C. | We operate Australian tablespoons as well as cups: one teaspoon equals five ml; one tablespoon equals xx ml; one loving cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) as well as cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size as well as peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.

Instructions

Chilling fourth dimension overnight

You volition require a 24 cm x 34 cm x four cm tray for this recipe.

Place melted butter as well as Corn Flakes inwards a bowl, mixing amongst your hands to combine as well as completely coat cereal. Press one-half the mixture evenly onto the base of operations of a 24 cm x 34 cm x four cm tray. Refrigerate until needed.

Place milk, sugar, semolina as well as cream inwards a large saucepan. Dissolve cornflour inwards one tablespoon of warm H2O as well as add together to saucepan. Place over medium-low oestrus as well as cook, stirring constantly, for 12 minutes or until really thick. Remove from oestrus as well as stir through rosewater. Allow to cool slightly.

Preheat oven to 180ºC. Spoon one-half of the semolina mixture over Corn Flake base, as well as then scatter over mozzarella. Cover amongst remaining semolina mixture, as well as then scatter over remaining Corn Flake mixture.

Bake for 25 minutes or until mixture is merely starting to bubble to a greater extent than or less the edges. Remove from oven as well as allow to cool completely, as well as then refrigerate overnight.

To brand syrup, house saccharide inwards a saucepan amongst 250 ml (1 cup) H2O over medium heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Bring to a simmer as well as fix for 8 minutes or until thickened. Remove from oestrus as well as allow to cool completely.

Preheat oven to 200ºC. Cut knafeh into xx slices inwards pan, take away pieces amongst a palette knife as well as house on large oven trays. Bake for 10 minutes or until cheese merely starts to ooze from the sides. Drizzle amongst syrup as well as scatter amongst rose petals as well as pistachios. Serve immediately.

Notes

• Rosewater, from Middle Eastern nutrient shops, delis as well as direct supermarkets, is a musky flavouring that is made yesteryear distilling rose petals.

• Rose petals (dried) are from specialist as well as Middle Eastern nutrient shops.

Photography yesteryear Chris Chen. Food grooming yesteryear Phoebe Wood. Food styling yesteryear Justine Poole.