DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Kunafa
Also known as: كنافة
Kunafa is an Egyptian pastry of shredded wheat dough baked with a sweet cheese or cream filling and finished with sugar syrup.
About Kunafa
Kunafa is an Egyptian pastry of shredded wheat dough baked with a sweet cheese or cream filling and finished with sugar syrup.
Ingredients in Kunafa
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- Kunafa shredded pastrybase
- Buttercooking medium
- Sugar syrupsauce
- Creamfilling
- Cream fillingfilling
- Unsalted white cheesefilling
- Pistachiogarnish
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