Table for TwoKunafa Nests
Crisp, buttery shredded-pastry nests filled with sweet cream, finished with syrup and pistachios.
Photo: Shoeib Abolhassani / Unsplash
⏱ 45 min📶 Medium👫 Serves 2🥬 Vegetarian☪ Muslim-friendly
Ingredients (for 2)
- Kataifi (shredded filo) pastry, 200 g
- Butter, 80 g, melted
- Thick cream or ricotta, 150 g
- Pistachios, 50 g, chopped
- Sugar, 100 g
- Water, 100 ml
- Lemon juice, 1 tsp
- Rose water, ½ tsp (optional)
Steps
- Simmer the sugar and water for 6 minutes, add the lemon juice and rose water, and let it cool.
- Heat the oven to 180°C. Pull the kataifi apart and toss it with the melted butter.
- Twist small handfuls into nests in a muffin tin, pressing a dip into the middle of each.
- Bake for 20–25 minutes, until crisp and golden.
- Fill each nest with cream, spoon over the syrup and top with pistachios.
Cook it together: One untangles and butters the pastry, the other twists the nests — then fill and decorate them together.
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