Recipe of Award-winning Basbousa or semolina cake

Travis Norris   30/07/2020 14:02

Basbousa or semolina cake
Basbousa or semolina cake

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, basbousa or semolina cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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 or semolina cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Basbousa or semolina cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook basbousa or semolina cake using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Basbousa or semolina cake:
  1. Take 200 gm semolina or Rave or suji
  2. Make ready 80 gm sugar
  3. Take 120 gm dry or dessciated coconut
  4. Make ready 200 gm curd
  5. Make ready 40 gm melted butter
  6. Get 2 tsp baking powder
  7. Take 1 cup sugar syrup
  8. Make ready 1 tsp lemon juice
  9. Make ready as needed Almonds for garnishing

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. In Egypt this is the main dessert served during the feasts and holidays for both Christians and Muslims. Basbousa (Semolina Cake) Recipe adapted from Vian Alnidawi and Sara Nassr, Comal Heritage Food Incubator, Denver, CO.

Steps to make Basbousa or semolina cake:
  1. In a bowl mix curd and sugar. Mix in the melted butter & mix.
  2. Then mix in the rava, coconut & baking powder. Mix well.
  3. Preheat the oven for 10 mins at 200 ° degrees
  4. Grease a baking dish with butter and put the mixture into the baking dish. Garnish with almonds and bake for 25 to 30 mins or till the top is golden brown at 160 degrees.
  5. While it is baking prepare the sugar syrup.
  6. Once baked, cut into diamond or square shape. Pour the sugar syrup on the cake while both are hot and let soak for sometime.
  7. Once soaked remove from tray and serve.

Basbusa is a Middle Eastern cake made with semolina wheat. Versions in Arab-owned bakeries in Israel often seem more confection than cake, perfumed with rose water and soaked in a flood of sweetened milk and/or syrup until the cakes are as dense and sweet as a candy bar. 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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