Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, my famous cheese knafeh!. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook my famous cheese knafeh! using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make My Famous Cheese Knafeh!:

1. Prepare 500 g knafeh dough, or mafroukeh
2. Make ready 500 g akkawi cheese, if available, or any other unsalted white cheese like mozzarella
3. Get 1/2 cup fine semolina, ferkha flour
4. Take 200 g butter
5. Take For the Sugar syrup:
6. Get 2 1/2 cups sugar
7. Make ready 1 1/2 cups water
8. Take 1 teaspoon rose water
9. Prepare 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
10. Prepare 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Instructions to make My Famous Cheese Knafeh!:

1. To get a completely unsalted cheese, soak in water for 24 hr. Make sure to change the water 4 to 5 times.
2. To prepare the sugar syrup: put the sugar and water in a small saucepan and place over medium heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Leave to boil then add the lemon juice and keep on medium heat for 10 min until the syrup thickens. Add the orange blossom water and rose water. Remove from heat and transfer to a large bowl.
3. Spread the knafeh dough in a 35 cm diameter baking pan forming a layer of around 1.5 cm in thickness. Bake the dough in the oven at medium heat, until the bottom and the side of the dough turn golden in color.
4. Cut the cheese in small cubes and place them in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir until the water oozes out. Discard the water.
5. Add in the fine semolina and ½ cup of the syrup and mix. When the cheese mixture starts boiling, remove from heat and pour over the baked knafeh dough.
6. Place a large serving tray over the knafeh pan and turn the pan upside down. Let the knafeh drop on the serving tray while slowly removing the pan.
7. Cut the knafeh into square pieces and serve warm with sugar syrup.

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