Recipe: Perfect Kunafeh with nuts

Kunafeh with nuts.

You can have Kunafeh with nuts using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Kunafeh with nuts

1. Prepare of For kunafeh mix:.
2. Prepare of ready Kunafa dough.
3. You need of unsalted melted butter.
4. It's of powder sugar.
5. You need of grape molasses or honey.
6. You need of liquid yellow food colouring (optional).
7. It's of For the filling:.
8. It's of Nuts roasted and crushed coarse (almond -pistcshios -hazelnuts).
9. It's of seedless raisins.
10. You need of fine grated coconut.
11. It's of cinnamon powder.
12. It's of For the syrup:.
13. You need of white sugar.
14. You need of water.
15. It's of fresh lemon juice.
16. It's of For serving:.
17. Prepare of Coarse grinded pistachios.
18. You need of ice cream  with  your favorite flavor.
19. It's of Requirements:  suitable oven try with diameter of 30 cm greased with little butter.

Kunafeh with nuts step by step

1. To prepare the syrup: In a saucepan over a medium heat, melt the sugar and water and let it boil for 7 minutes, then add the lemon juice and boil for another 3 minutes, then remove of the fire and let it cool completely..
2. Keep Kunafa dough in a wide tray and then cut it to small chunks by scissors..
3. Add food coloring to melted butter then pitched over Kunafa dough and then add the powdered sugar and grape molasses and mix well until homogeneous..
4. Spread half kunafeh dough in the oven tray and press it by hand and level the surface..
5. Mix the filling ingredients together and then spread it over the first layer of Kunafa and press by hand , then cover with the second half of Kunafa dough and press by hand and level the surface ..
6. Place the tray in the oven at a temperature of 180 C on the middle shelf and heat from the top and bottom for the duration of 25-30 minutes until cooked and golden ..
7. Pour the cool syrup on kunafeh and let it cool for 20 min. before serving with pistachios and icecream..