Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, coconut basbousa (semolina cake). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. The mixture should be fairly thick and easy to press with hands (not thin like cake or brownie batter) Basbousa is an Egyptian semolina cake drenched in syrup.
Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have coconut basbousa (semolina cake) using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake):
- Take 2 cups semolina
- Prepare 1 cup desiccated coconut
- Make ready 1 cup ghee (clarified butter)
- Make ready 1 tin condensed milk (sweetened 397 gms)
- Make ready 1 & 1/4 cup water
- Prepare 1 tablespoon baking powder
- Take OPTIONAL: pinch of vanilla powder and pinch of cardamom powder
- Take SUGAR SYRUP : 3 cups water, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 lemon slice, few cardamom pods
Basbousa cake is a dessert from the Middle East that is made primarily from a semolina mixture. Basbousa is a popular and traditional Middle East dessert that is prepared with coconut and semolina and soaked in flavored sugar syrup. I have slightly modified the recipe and prepared in orange flavor. This cake is crumbly, juicy, moist and delicious.
Steps to make Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake):
- Mix ghee and condensed milk. Add in semolina and coconut. Add cardamom powder, vanilla, baking powder. Finally add water and mix till smooth. Top with sliced almonds and pistachios if you have some. Let this mixture sit for atleast 30 minutes !
- Grease a rectangular wide baking dish. You don’t want the layer to be too thick. Pour in batter and bake in a pre heated oven for 30-35 mins at 190c. Turn the top on for the last 7-8 mins to brown the top. Basically there isn’t much cooking, just want the liquid to dry up so once a skewer inserted comes out clean, it should be good to go.
- Side by side, bring 3 cups of water to boil with 3/4 cups of sugar. Add squeeze of lemon juice and leave a lemon slice in. You can add some cardamom pods too. Boil for 7-8 minutes, you need about 2.5 cups of liquid. It doesn’t need to become a thick consistency! But it does need to be very hot when the basbousa comes out of the oven.
- Once basbousa is out of the oven, pour strained sugar syrup over it. All sides and in the Centre. Let it rest for about two hours. Then cut into squares or rectangles or even diamonds and enjoy!
- Serving tip: use cupcake liners / wrappers to serve individual pieces !
I have slightly modified the recipe and prepared in orange flavor. This cake is crumbly, juicy, moist and delicious. Combine the semolina, coconut, sugar baking powder in a large bowl and mix until combined. Add milk, yogurt, and the butter or oil to the bowl and mix until there are no lumps and it all mixed. A delicious coconut, yogurt and semolina/farina cake that gets sprinkled with nuts and drizzled with syrup to put the final seal of perfection.
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