Basbousa / semolina cake
Basbousa / semolina cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, basbousa / semolina cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Basbousa / semolina cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Basbousa / semolina cake is something that I have loved my whole life.

Basbousa Aka Harissa (Coconut Yogurt Semolina Cake). Mix the semolina, coconut, sugar, baking soda, and the butter in a large bowl. Use your hands to incorporate the butter with the other.

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

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

Recipe adapted from Vian Alnidawi and Sara Nassr, Comal Heritage. Basbousa are small cakes that are covered with syrup. The are perfect with coffee or tea. How to Make Basbousa - Semolina Cakes With Syrup.

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.

Shamali cake or semolina cake is one of the most popular desserts in Cyprus. It's one of the variations basbousa - traditional Middle East sweet cake. For the first time I tried shamali at one of. From Saad Fayed, I love basbousa with coffee after a good meal. They are just enough to add that extra umpf to a meal.

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