{"id":7650,"date":"2018-02-15T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/?p=7650"},"modified":"2018-03-15T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T05:40:15","slug":"kunafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/?p=7650","title":{"rendered":"Kunafa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kunafa is a savoury cake comprising of several layers of shredded pancakes interspersed with minced beef filling. The dish is of Arab origin, though surprisingly it seems to have originally been a sweet rather than savoury dish. In the story of Ma\u2019aruf the Cobbler occurring in the Thousand and One Nights we find kunafah figuring as a sweet dish made of vermicelli cake, fried with clarified butter and sweetened with treacle or bees\u2019 honey. Edward Lane says in his Modern Egyptians (1836) has this to say: \u201cA favourite sweet dish is koona\u2019feh, which is made of wheat-flour, and resembles vermicelli, but is finer; it is boiled, and sweetened with sugar or honey\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kunafa is a savoury cake comprising of several layers of shredded pancakes interspersed with minced beef filling. The dish is of Arab origin, though surprisingly it seems to have originally been a sweet rather than savoury dish. In the story of Ma\u2019aruf the Cobbler occurring in the Thousand and One Nights we find kunafah figuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7652,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions\/7652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}