Cheese Kadaif

                                                                               Receta en Español

I already have made a dessert with Kadaif to present Albania: Nuts Kadaif , the same dessert can be eaten in Armenia, it is delicious, but in Armenia they also make cheese kadaif.

This dessert is also called Kunafa.

Ingredients:

• 340 grams of butter.
• 500 grams Kadaif.
• 400 grams fresh mozzarella cheese.
• 80 grams goat cheese.
• 400 grams sugar.
• 1/2 liter water.
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar.
• A splash of lemon juice.
• Pine nuts or other kind of nuts.

Method:

1-  Extend Kadaif for 2 hours to make it get dry ,turn it on the other side and let it dry for another 2 hours.

2-  Spread half of the Kadaif on an oven proof dish, if Kadaif is very long you can cut it.

3- Prepare ghee, it is clarified butter. It is important to make this clarification to prevent butter to get burnt into the oven , given that the white part of the butter is the part that gets the higher temperature.

Heat butter , once it is liquid , turn the fire off. Take a spoon, and get rid of the white part of the butter that remains on the upper side.

4- Pour half of the liquid butter all over the surface of the Kadaif.  

5- Cut both cheeses into slices and put them over the Kadaif , building some layers.



6-  Spread the rest of Kadaif.

7-  Pour the remaining butter.

8- Preheat oven at 200 ºC. Cook in oven for 25 minutes until it gets brown. Let it cool.

For syrup:

9 - Take a pan, combine sugar, water, vanilla and a dash of lemon, bring it to a boil. Stir until sugar is well dissolved. It should take 30 minutes. Then turn off the heat and pour the cold water.

10 - Once Kataifi is cold, pour Syrup over it. Sprinkle pine nuts and let it cool at least 1 hour to let the syrup dry. The more you wait the more delicious it will be. Then cut in pieces and serve.

Where to buy Kataifi in Madrid

You can buy Kataifi near Madrid mosque, at Antonio Calvo street , I bought it at 'El Hogar'.

My Comments to the recipe:

When I made Nuts Kadaif I noted that I should pour all the syrup and the taste of the dessert is marvellous 24 hours after it has absorbed all the syrup.
In this case, it is not the same because cheese doesn't allow Kadaif to absorb the syrup, it is better to eat it when still hot.



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