Ingredients
50 g kunafa dough
1 cup milk
300 g full-fat cream cheese
300 g fresh cream
3/4 cup sugar
3 tbsp ghee
3 tbsp butter
3 tbsp chopped pistachio nuts
Preparation:
1- Preheat oven to 220°C
2- Prepare Cream in a large bowl, beat cream cheese with a hand mixer for a minute. Add fresh cream and sugar. Mix until homogeneous.
3- Add Cream and mix will. Refrigerate, until ready to serve, melt ghee and butter together in a small saucepan
4- Form a handful of kunafa dough into a nest shape. Place kunafa nest into a muffin tin cup. Repeat 5 times, until you have 6 kunafa nests in a muffin pan
5- Pour ghee and butter over kunafa nests. Bake for 15-17 minutes, until golden brown
6- Meantime, toast pistachios in a saucepan on medium heat
7- Pour 2 tablespoons of Dessert Syrup over each hot kunafa nest and allow to cool in the tin
8- Put kunafa nests on a paper towel, to soak excess butter, and divide cheesecake evenly into 8 serving cups or small bowls. Top with kunafa and pistachios
9-Serve cool!
H.Zoghib