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Kunefe

Also known as: Künefe

A warm cheese-filled dessert of shredded wheat pastry baked with butter, soaked in sugar syrup, and commonly finished with pistachio.

About Kunefe

A warm cheese-filled dessert of shredded wheat pastry baked with butter, soaked in sugar syrup, and commonly finished with pistachio.

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Ingredients in Kunefe

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Shredded wheat pastrybase
Fresh Cheesefilling
Buttercooking medium
Sugarsweetener
Pistachiogarnish
Waterother
Pastrybase

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