[Sca-cooks] Knaf was e: Abbasid Qataif (spiced nut filled pastries)

[Ana Valdés]

Do anyone have a recipe for knaf?
Ana

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Ana Valdés wrote:
>>
>> Wonderful! I was in Palestine andJordan last week and bought two kilo
>> of "small cut", cakes and pastries. From Zalatimo Brothers, the best
>> baker in the Middle East. They export to the US and to Europe.
>> I ate in their place knaf, my favorite pastry, filled with
>> sheepcheese. They told me it was almost impossible to make knaf
>> outside the Middle East since the special sheepcheese is not made in
>> other parts of the world. I know people tried with mozarella and
>> mascarpone.
>> Have any of you tried to make knaf?
>> Ana, missing the flavours and the smells of the Middle East!
>>
>
> I did not know the Arabic name for this, only the Greek "tyropita".  I have
> no trouble finding sheep's milk cheese in the Los Angeles area, in the
> Middle Eastern stores in particular.  I would try this with rinsed sheep's
> milk feta, unless I was really in the mood for a lot of salt [which happens
> in the hot summers here].
>
> Bon appetit!
> Selene
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