Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, basbousa / semolina cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Basbousa / semolina cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Basbousa / semolina cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Basbousa is a traditional Egyptian - middle eastern sweet cake. Basically Basbousa (also known as revani or harissa) cake is a semolina cake with coconut. This Egyptian recipe for sweet semolina cake is incredibly easy to make.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have basbousa / semolina cake using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Basbousa / semolina cake:

1. Make ready 250 gms butter
2. Prepare 250 gms castor sugar
3. Get 5 eggs
4. Make ready 250 gms hung curd
5. Make ready 500 grams suji/semolina
6. Get 70 grams coconut powder
7. Make ready For Sugar syrup
8. Prepare 200 ml Water
9. Get 400 grams Sugar
10. Prepare 2 green cardamoms
11. Prepare 2 tej patta/ bay leaves
12. Take 1/2 lemon juice

Recipe adapted from Vian Alnidawi and Sara Nassr, Comal Heritage. 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. Shamali cake or semolina cake is one of the most popular desserts in Cyprus.

Instructions to make Basbousa / semolina cake:

1. Beat butter and sugar until sugar gets mix properly.
2. Then add eggs one by one and whisk the batter and add hang curd mix it.
3. Last add suji and coconut powder and mix it well.
4. Now Grease the tray with butter paper and put the batter in it and bake it for 35 min at 180 to 200°C.
5. Now make a sugar syrup boil the water and sugar and herbs and cool it down.
6. After baking spread the syrup over the cake and let it cool it down and then serve it.

It's one of the variations basbousa - traditional Middle East sweet cake. For the first time I tried shamali at one of. Basbousa are small cakes that are covered with syrup. The are perfect with coffee or tea. It is basically semolina cake that has been soaked in a sugar/honey syrup.

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