Kataifi

Kataifi, Kanafah (Arabic: كنافة‎‎ kunāfah, Turkish: künefe, Azerbaijani: ریشته ختایی riştə xətayi, Greek: καor or best known as “shredded phyllo”, is vegan, sugar free, no cholesterol and yeast free pastry. Kataifi Pastry (pronounced with evenly stressed syllables: ka-ta-if-ee), Kanafah (Arabic: كنافة‎‎ kunāfah, Turkish: künefe, Azerbaijani: ریشته ختایی riştə xətayi, Greek: κανταΐφι kadaïfi/kataïf

i, Hebrew: כנאפה‎‎ knafeh), also spelled kunafeh or kunafah is a Middle Eastern cheese pastry soaked in sweet, sugar-based syrup. To describe the pastry is to say that it looks like vermicelli when it is raw and like a shredded wheat breakfast cereal when it is cooked. Many people do in fact call it “shredded pastry.” The pastry is made from a batter that is poured through a container in which there are fine holes. The fine streams of batter flow onto a moving heated metal plate on which the pastry is dried/cooked briefly. The shredded dough is used to make several different kinds pastry, typically of the buttery, syrupy sort. Traditionally it has been used for the making of sweets that are soaked in syrup, generally with a filling of a variety of nuts. Some traditional recipes call for the baking of the pastry while other recipes are designed for the pastry to be traditionally fried in clarified butter. There are many and easy steps recipe for kataifi pastry especially for desserts and cocktail or finger foods.