Semolina Cake (Basbousa)
Semolina Cake (Basbousa)

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, semolina cake (basbousa). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Semolina Cake (Basbousa) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Semolina Cake (Basbousa) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook semolina cake (basbousa) using 15 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Semolina Cake (Basbousa):
  1. Get Basbousa
  2. Take 2.25 cups semolina flour
  3. Get 1.15 cups sugar
  4. Prepare 3 tablespoon butter (room temp)
  5. Take 1.15 cups natural yoghurt
  6. Make ready 0.4 cups desicated coconut
  7. Prepare 1 tablespoon tahini (sesame paste)
  8. Take 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
  9. Get Whole almonds / hazelnuts
  10. Take Syrup
  11. Get 1-1.5 cup sugar
  12. Get 1-1.5 cup water
  13. Prepare 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  14. Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
  15. Get 2-3 cloves
Steps to make Semolina Cake (Basbousa):
  1. Preheat oven to 175°C
  2. Start by making the syrup. Combine water and sugar in a saucepan and heat on low to medium temperature.
  3. Add the lemon juice as it starts to simmer
  4. Then add the cinnamon and clove.
  5. Once the consistency is syrup like, remove from heat and allow to cool by placing sauce pan in cold water bath.
  6. Put semonlia flour, sugar and baking powder in a large mixing bowl.
  7. Mix altogether.
  8. Melt the butter by placing in a microwave proof bowl for 10 - 20 seconds.
  9. Add the melted butter, yoghurt and coconut to the mixture
  10. Using the tips of your fingers, mix the ingredients together.
  11. Using a brush, spread the tahini to cover the base and sides of flan dish
  12. Spoon the mixture into the flan dish and level using the back of a spoon
  13. Place in oven for 15 minutes. Then remove and place whole almonds or hazelnuts so that they rest on the top of the cake.
  14. Return to oven for a further 20 minutes until the cake is golden brown in colour
  15. Add the now cooled syrup to the cake and allow it to rest in the flan dish.
  16. Typically leave it to soak up the syrup for around 20 minutes and that's it ready to enjoy.

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