🇱🇧 Lebanon
Knafeh bi-Jibn w Kaak
Beirut's breakfast knafeh: coarse crumb crust, stretchy cheese, stuffed into a sesame kaak with extra syrup.
🔪 Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 30 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
The “khishneh” coarse style eaten as a breakfast sandwich in kaak — syrup poured inside the bread.
Ingredients
- 500 gkataifi shreds, chopped
- 500 gakkawi, desalted
- 200 gghee
- 400 gsugar
- 1 tbsprose and orange blossom water
- 8 sesame kaak or buns
Method
- 1
Toast the chopped kataifi in ghee until golden.
- 2
Layer half in a tray, add the cheese, and top with the rest.
- 3
Bake until bubbling at the edges.
- 4
Soak with syrup and serve scooped into warm kaak.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8