Kunafeh

knafeh

knafeh

Ingredients
Dry vermicelli 400 gm
Butter 125 gm melted
Unsweetened Rubry 200 gm
Khoya 200 gm
Milk ½ cup
Ingredients for sugar syrup
Sugar 250 gm
Water 3/4 cup
Lemon juice 1 tsp
Rose water 1 tbsp
Method for Sugar Syrup
Cook together 250 gm sugar, ¾ cup water, 1 tsp lemon juice and 1 tbsp rose water till you get thin sticky syrup.
Method for knafeh
Break the 400 gm vermicelli and pour 125 gm butter on it, mix well, line a baking dish with this broken vermicelli, press to make a firm base, especially around edges using your thumb. In a pan over low flame, cook200 gm rubry, 200 gm khoya and ½ cup milk, keep stirring until its thick and no liquid remains, pour this mixture on top of the base, then again layer top with same broken vermicelli, bake at 180 degree C for 20 minutes, take out of oven and pour sugar syrup while hot, rest for a while then over turn, cut into squares and serve.