How to Cooking Yummy Basbousa (Nammoura) Sweet Cake

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Basbousa (Nammoura) Sweet Cake. Home » Recipes » Lebanese Namoura Cake (aka Basbousa) Lebanese Namoura Cake (aka Basbousa) Time for another desert to add to your summer picnic spreads. This time we have Namoura, an eggless semolina coconut cake drizzled with a sugar syrup, also known as Basbousa in the wider Middle East.. I don't want a super sickly sweet namoura that.

Basbousa cake is a dessert from the Middle East that is made primarily from a semolina mixture.

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

What is Nammoura / Basbousa / Hareesa?

You can cook Basbousa (Nammoura) Sweet Cake using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Basbousa (Nammoura) Sweet Cake

  1. It’s 2 Cups of semolina.

  2. Prepare 1 cup of sugar.

  3. You need 1 cup of powdered milk.

  4. Prepare 1 Cup of cream.

  5. It’s 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.

  6. It’s 1 tsp of baking powder.

  7. You need 1 pack of thick cream.

  8. Prepare of Milk.

  9. Prepare 1/4 cup of warm milk.

It is a sweet, spongy, semi-soft semolina cake garnished with almonds or coconuts.

A sweet semi-soft semolina cake garnished with almonds.

Sugar, semolina, butter ghee, almonds, shredded coconut, shredded pistachios, baking powder, yeast.

Characteristics Namoura (نمورة), is a delicious Lebanese cake/dessert that is super easy to make and widely known across the Middle East.

Basbousa (Nammoura) Sweet Cake step by step

  1. Mix all the ingredients together until you soften the mix. Note: do not mix the 1/4 cup warm milk in this step..

  2. I used a cupcake pan but certainly you can use a glass pan or cake pan. First layer: With one big spoon place the dough in the pan. If you are using a glass whole plan, divide the mix by half. Place the first half into your pan..

  3. I added my thick cream in top of my first layer..

  4. Now for the last layer, add your 1/4 of warm milk to the remaining mix and continue mixing until it soften. Then pour it in top of your cream layer..

  5. Pre-heat your oven to 180C (355F) bake for 15 mins, broil for 5-7 mins until golden. (If using a whole pan, probably you will need to broil for additional mins just keep an eye).

  6. Pour your favorite syrup in top (Sugar, Condensed milk…) and enjoy it.

It is topped with almonds, baked and then soaked with an aromatic sugar.

This Namoura dessert is the classic recipe of the original Lebanese Namoura.

Many other Middle Eastern cultures called it by other names.

Take the cake out and spread the syrup slowly and evenly on top of the cake.

Allow the cake to soak up the syrup for a couple of hours or overnight and cool down to room temperature.