Mango kunafa ( Pastry with cheese and syrup )
A rich, Middle Eastern dessert. ✓ Cheese filling in kataifi pastry. ✓ Also known as Knafeh. ✓ Topped with crunchy pistachios, sweet mango, and delicate rose petals. ✓ Lurpak.com
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Cooking tools:
- Microplane
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- Mixing bowl
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Ingredients
- 6 cardamom pods, crushed
- 1 orange, zest
- 250 g granulated sugar
- 150 ml water
- 1 tbsp orange blossom water
- 1 tbsp rose water
- 100 g mozzarella, roughly chopped
- 100 g ricotta cheese, roughly chopped
- 200 g akawi cheese (or mozzarella if you cannot find it)
- 300 g kataifi pastry
- 100 g Lurpak® Butter Unsalted
- 50 g pistachios, shelled and roughly chopped
- 1 tbsp dried rose petals
- 2 medium-sized mangos, peeled and chopped into 3cm cubes
