Cheese Pastry

Name: Cheese Pastry (Künefe)
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 200 g (7 oz/scant 1 cup) caster (superfine) sugar; kaymak (buffalo’s milk clotted cream) or mascarpone cheese, to serve; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 250 g (9 oz/½ packet) kadayif (angel hair) pastry (available from Turkish, other Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food shops); 250 g (9 oz) fresh mozzarella cheese, torn into pieces; 125 g (4½ oz) butter, melted and cooled until lukewarm; kaymak (buffalo’s milk clotted cream) or mascarpone cheese, to serve

Künefe

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Istanbul Cult Recipes

By Pomme Larmoyer

Published 2015

About

You can find this pastry, made from kadayif (angel hair pastry) and cheese, from the Middle East to Greece. The Turks use a desalted cheese; mozzarella does the job very well.

Ingredients

250 g (9 oz/½ packet) kadayif (angel hair) pastry (available from Turkish, other Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food shops)

Asia
Turkey
Pastry
Mediterranean
Istanbul
Vegetarian

Method

First, make the syrup. Put the sugar and 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) water in a small saucepan, and stir until the s