Recipe: Delicious Semolina Cake (Basbousa)

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Semolina Cake (Basbousa). Place the butter in a small bowl and melt in the microwave. In a large mixing bowl, combine together the sugar and yogurt. Now add in the semolina, baking powder and milk.

Basbousa cake is a well known middle eastern dessert made with semolina flour, coconut and yogurt.

The coarse semolina flour gives the cake its signature sandy texture, but its drenched in a flavorful simple syrup which makes it super moist and has a melt-in-your-mouth texture.

Instruction: In a large bowl, transfer the semolina flour, sugar and salt.

You can cook Semolina Cake (Basbousa) using 15 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Semolina Cake (Basbousa)

1. Prepare of Fine Semolina or Rawa.

2. Prepare of Yoghurt.

3. Prepare of Sugar.

4. It’s of melted unsalted Butter.

5. It’s of Eggs.

6. Prepare of cup Milk.

7. It’s of cup dessicated Coconut.

8. Prepare of Baking powder.

9. Prepare of Almond essence/Vanilla essence.

10. Prepare of crushed assorted nuts and coconut flakes to garnish.

11. It’s of For the Sugar Syrup.

12. It’s of Sugar.

13. You need of Water.

14. It’s of Lemon juice.

15. You need of Orange blossom water/rose water.

Add the buttermilk and the baking soda and the other ingredients, mix the dough making sure that all the ingredients are nicely combined; it should not be runny.

Mix the semolina, coconut, sugar, baking soda, and the butter in a large bowl.

Use your hands to incorporate the butter with the other ingredients until mixed well.

Add the yogurt and continue mixing with your hands until fully combined.

Semolina Cake (Basbousa) instructions

1. In a mixing bowl add sugar and yoghurt.Mix well..

2. Now add semolina, baking powder and milk.Mix well..

3. Add melted butter and almond or vanilla essence. Give it a mix..

4. Add 2 eggs and mix well with a spatula..

5. At last add dessicated coconut and mix. The batter should be a little thick in consistency..

6. Grease a 9 inch round baking dish with little oil..

7. Pour the batter into the pan and tap 2- 3 times to remove any bubbles..

8. Pre heat oven at 200 degree C for 10 minutes..

9. Bake basbousa at 200 degrees for 1st 10 minutes..

10. Then reduce the temperature to 180 degree and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until the top becomes golden brown..

11. When cake is baking, add 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of water to a pan and heat..

12. Add lemon juice, orange blossom water and mix..

13. Cook for 10 minutes to make a thin sugar syrup..

14. When the cake becomes golden, take out from the oven and pour the warm prepared sugar syrup over the hot cake..

15. Let it soak for 10 to 15 minutes..

16. Remove from cake tin and garnish with coconut flakes and crushed nuts..

17. Enjoy with family and friends as dessert..

18. Very soft and moist texture. Bon appetit..

The mixture should be fairly thick and easy to press with hands (not thin like cake or brownie batter) Basbousa is a traditional Middle Eastern moist cake-like sweet or dessert using semolina/suji/cream of wheat, baked and soaked in a sugar syrup, either flavored with orange blossom or rose water.

The other names for it used in different parts of the middle east are "Harissa", "ravani or revani" etc.

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