Kunafa
Kunafa is a popular Arabic dessert.
Ingredients
Sauce
- 2½ cup milk
- 5 tbsp cornflour
- 3 tbsp sugar
- ½ cup whipped cream (optional)
Ingredients added with vermicelli
- 300 grams roasted thin vermicelli (2 packet bareek roasted sawayan)
- 3-4 tbsp butter
- ¼ tsp orange food color (zarda rang)
- mozzarella cheese as required (optional)
Sugar Syrup
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¾ cup water
- ½ tsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp rose water
Instructions
- First of all prepare creamy sauce.
- In a mixing bowl break vermicelli to its smallest size and treat it with butter. Optionally you can add mozzarella to your taste. Add some food color to make it more appealing.
- Prepare a base layer of vermicelli in an oven proof dish. Use back of the spoon or other kitchen utensil to spread the vermicelli evenly.
- Pour the creamy sauce over the vermicelli and optionally add some mozzarella cheese.
- Cover the creamy layer with the top layer of vermicelli.
- Add the sugar syrup by pouring it over evenly on the top layer of the vermicelli.
- Finally garnish with pistachio or any other dry fruit of you choice.
- You can serve it hot or refrigerate it for serving it cold.