🇵🇸 Palestine
Knafeh Nabulsiyeh
Nablus gave the world its knafeh: fine semolina crust dyed sunset orange over squeaky Nabulsi cheese.
🔪 Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
The “naameh” (fine) style with its signature orange hue, Nabulsi cheese, and crushed pistachio center line.
Ingredients
- 500 gfine knafeh semolina dough (naameh)
- 500 gNabulsi or akkawi cheese, desalted
- 200 gghee
- 400 gsugar
- 1 tbsporange blossom water
- 50 gpistachios, crushed
- to tasteknafeh coloring (optional)
Method
- 1
Make the syrup: sugar, water, a squeeze of lemon, and orange blossom; cool it.
- 2
Work the ghee (and coloring) into the fine dough.
- 3
Press the dough into a wide tray and blanket with sliced cheese.
- 4
Cook over medium flame, rotating, until the base turns amber and the cheese flows.
- 5
Flip onto a platter, soak with cool syrup, and stripe with pistachio.
- 6
Serve hot, ideally folded into a kaak sesame ring.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8