Kunafeh with nuts

Name: Kunafeh with nuts
Total time: 1500 s
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: For kunafeh mix:; 500 gram ready Kunafa dough; 100 g unsalted melted butter; 1 tablespoon powder sugar; 1 tablespoon grape molasses or honey; 1 teaspoon liquid yellow food colouring (optional); For the filling:; 250 grams Nuts roasted and crushed coarse (almond -pistcshios -hazelnuts); 50 g seedless raisins; 50 g fine grated coconut; 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder; For the syrup:; 2 cups white sugar; 11/2 cups water; 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice; For serving:; Coarse grinded pistachios; ice cream with your favorite flavor; Requirements: suitable oven try with diameter of 30 cm greased with little butter

Hamoudy Kitchen @cook_4944819

A quick and easy way to make kunafeh

Hamoudy Kitchen @cook_4944819

A quick and easy way to make kunafeh

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Ingredients

25 mins

8 servings

For kunafeh mix:
500 gramready Kunafa dough
100 gunsalted melted butter
1 tablespoonpowder sugar
1 tablespoongrape molasses or honey
1 teaspoonliquid yellow food colouring (optional)
For the filling:
250 gramsNuts roasted and crushed coarse (almond -pistcshios -hazelnuts)
50 gseedless raisins
50 gfine grated coconut
1 tablespooncinnamon powder
For the syrup:
2 cupswhite sugar
11/2 cupswater
1 teaspoonfresh lemon juice
For serving:
Coarse grinded pistachios
ice cream with your favorite flavor
Requirements: suitable oven try with diameter of 30 cm greased with little butter

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Steps

25 mins

1

To prepare the syrup: In a saucepan over a medium heat, melt the sugar and water and let it boil for 7 minutes, then add the lemon juice and boil for another 3 minutes, then remove of the fire and let it cool completely.
2

Keep Kunafa dough in a wide tray and then cut it to small chunks by scissors.
3

Add food coloring to melted butter then pitched over Kunafa dough and then add the powdered sugar and grape molasses and mix well until homogeneous.
4

Spread half kunafeh dough in the oven tray and press it by hand and level the surface.
5

Mix the filling ingredients together and then spread it over the first layer of Kunafa and press by hand , then cover with the second half of Kunafa dough and press by hand and level the surface .
6

Place the tray in the oven at a temperature of 180 C on the middle shelf and heat from the top and bottom for the duration of 25-30 minutes until cooked and golden .
7

Pour the cool syrup on kunafeh and let it cool for 20 min. before serving with pistachios and icecream.