Easy Toast Knafeh

Ingredients

• 7 slices of sandwich bread, crusts removed
• 1 tablespoon soft unsalted butter
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons fine semolina
• A splash of rosewater
• A splash of orange blossom water
• 2 large pieces or one large ball of sweet mozzarella (about 250 g)
• or
• Sweetened Akkawi cheese (well-sweetened)
• Pine nuts - optional
• Pistachios for garnish
• Sugar syrup (qatir/shira) for serving
• For more delicious sweets see: Kaak Laban
• Easy, quick cheese halawet at this link

Method

1. Crush the toast and mix it with unsalted butter, rubbing them together well.
2. Sprinkle a little pine nuts on the base of the cheesecake pan, then spread the toast mixture over the bottom of the pan.
3. Prepare semolina with milk: mix the semolina with the milk and put them in a pot on the cold stove, stirring; cook over medium heat until they thicken.
4. Add rose water and orange blossom water to the semolina-milk, stir, and remove from the heat.
5. Over the pressed toast in the cheesecake pan, distribute the sweet cheese, then pour the semolina-milk mixture on top.
6. Bake the easy toast knafeh in the oven until the toast layer browns on the bottom and the cheese melts.
7. Let the toast knafeh rest and cool, then invert it onto a serving plate larger than the pan.
8. Garnish the toast knafeh with pistachios and serve immediately with syrup (qatra).
9. Easy and quick cheese sweet recipe at this link.