Kunafa

Ingredients:

227- grams Cottage cheese /butter

2 1/2- cups Sugar

300- grams Kataifi/ Sutarfeni

1-cup water

1-Tablespoon Lemon juice

1-tablespoon milk

l-tablespoon soft ricotta cheese

1/3 -Cup double cream

1/3 -cup pistachios, chopped fine

Butter, for buttering the pan

2 -tablespoons walnuts, chopped fine

1/2 -cup golden raisins

3 -tsp ground cinnamon

Method:

Heat sugar with two and a half cups of water till the sugar dissolves. Let the mixture come to a boil. Add lemon juice and lemon peel and continue to boil for about five minutes. Remove from heat.

Grease a small aluminium tray with one tablespoon of butter. Put some of the Kataifi into the tray and press. Keep a slab of paneer and press gently.

Put some more Kataifi over the top and press gently once again. Keep the tray on the gas burner.

Drizzle some melted butter all round and cook over low heat till the underside turns reddish. Turn over and continue to cook till the other side turns red too.

Pour sugar water on top and wait till it gets absorbed. Keep a large slab of butter on top and serve immediately.
Similarly prepare more Kataifi .