Basbousa/Semolina cake
Basbousa/Semolina cake

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, basbousa/semolina cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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/Semolina cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Basbousa/Semolina cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have basbousa/semolina cake using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Basbousa/Semolina cake:
  1. Make ready 1 cup Sugar
  2. Prepare 1 cup Water
  3. Take half Lemon
  4. Take 1 and 1/2 cups Semolina
  5. Make ready 3/4 cup Vegetable oil/butter
  6. Make ready 1 cup Milk
  7. Take 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  8. Get 1 Egg
  9. Take 1/2 cup Sugar
  10. Get 1/2 cup All purpose flour
  11. Prepare 1 tsp Baking powder
  12. Prepare 9 " inch greased butter Pan with
  13. Make ready 15-20 nos blanched Almonds

In Egypt this is the main dessert served during the feasts and holidays for both Christians and Muslims. A simple basbousa recipe for making a quick cake everyone loves! 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.

Instructions to make Basbousa/Semolina cake:
  1. SUGAR SYRUP-Bring water,sugar and half lemon juice till all the sugar gets dissolved in the water.Cool to room temp and store in a glass jar.
  2. Blanch some almonds and keep aside dry.
  3. Take a large bowl and mix all the dry ingredients.
  4. Add in the veg oil and milk and combine the mixture well with a spatula.
  5. Now whisk an egg and vanilla essence into the above mixture. Mix well.
  6. Pour this cake mixture into the greased pan.
  7. Score lines on the mixture with a knife and make a pattern as shown in the picture.
  8. Bake @ 350 deg F for 30 mins.
  9. Take the pan out and cut right through the scored lines on the cake.
  10. Pour the cold sugar syrup onto the hot cake.
  11. Back into oven for another 15 mins.
  12. Cool the cake to room temp or serve hot.

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. 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.

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