Dubai Kunafa Nabulsia 🍯

Name: Dubai Kunafa Nabulsia
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 2-4 servings
Cuisine: Levantine & Gulf
Ingredients: kataifi (shredded wheat pastry); ghee, melted; sweet unsalted cheese such as akkawi or mozzarella, shredded; sugar; water; lemon juice; orange blossom water; pistachios, ground, for dusting

Shredded kataifi pastry fried crisp with sweet stretchy cheese, soaked in orange-blossom syrup and crackling under a spoon — the Levant's great warm dessert, now a Gulf shop-front star.

Dubai Levantine & Gulf ⏱ 50 min Medium

Method

1

Boil sugar with water, a squeeze of lemon and orange blossom water into a light syrup; keep it cold — hot pastry meets cold syrup is the rule.
2

Loosen and chop the kataifi, then rub it thoroughly with melted ghee so every strand shines.
3

Press half into a round tin as an even base, spread the shredded cheese in a thick middle layer.
4

Cover with the remaining kataifi and press firm; bake until deep gold and audibly crisp.
5

Invert onto a plate, pour the cold syrup over in a slow spiral and dust with pistachio; serve warm while the cheese pulls.

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