Recipe: Appetizing Basbousa (semovita cake)

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Recipe: Appetizing Basbousa (semovita cake) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Basbousa (semovita cake). 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.

It is popular throughout Middle Eastern countries as well as North Africa, Iran, Greece and Turkey.

In Egypt this is the main dessert served during the feasts and holidays for both Christians and Muslims.

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

You can cook Basbousa (semovita cake) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Basbousa (semovita cake)

  1. You need 3 cups of semovita.

  2. Prepare 1/3 of of flour.

  3. It’s 1 cup of fried coconut.

  4. Prepare 1 cup of sugar.

  5. Prepare 3 of Eggs.

  6. Prepare pinch of Salt.

  7. Prepare 1 teaspoon of Baking powder.

  8. You need 1 teaspoon of Baking soda.

  9. You need 1 cup of milk.

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.

Authentic Egyptian basbousa recipe that is soft and stays soft.

A delicious coconut, yogurt and semolina/farina cake that gets sprinkled with nuts and drizzled with syrup to put the final seal of perfection.

Basbousa/basboosa is a term in the Middle east that refers to a very sweet semolina - sort of- cake.

Basbousa (semovita cake) step by step

  1. The wet and d dry ingredients.

  2. Mix all d dry ingredients together.

  3. Add d wet ingredients slowly.

  4. Mix every thing together,I diluted d milk using hot water.

  5. Put d batter in your pan and bake in your oven, you can sprinkled coconut on it,it does not stay long in d oven 30 to 25,min ita done..

  6. Allow to cool and remove it from d pan,You can sprinkled coconut on it and I added condensed milk too.

  7. Your delicious semovita cake is done..

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

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.

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