Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, basbousa (semolina cake). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Basbousa is a traditional Egyptian - middle eastern sweet cake. Basically Basbousa (also known as revani or harissa) cake is a semolina cake with coconut. This cake is Soft and moist with a touch of lemon syrup.
Basbousa (Semolina Cake) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Basbousa (Semolina Cake) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook basbousa (semolina cake) using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Basbousa (Semolina Cake):
- Get Basbousa Cake
- Take 2 cups semovita
- Prepare 2 tablespoons flour
- Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Make ready 2 spoons melted butter
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Get Sugar (to taste)
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 can full cream Evaporated milk
- Get Sugar syrup
- Get 3 cups sugar
- Get 5 cups water
- Take Lemon juice
- Make ready Drops vanilla extract
Basbousa (also namoura, revani, hareseh and other names) is a traditional Middle Eastern sweet cake that originated in Egypt, although it is also popular in other countries. Basbousa cake is a dessert from the Middle East that is made primarily from a semolina mixture. Basbousa are small cakes that are covered with syrup. The are perfect with coffee or tea.
Steps to make Basbousa (Semolina Cake):
- Mix dry ingredients: semolina, baking powder and flour. Rub in the melted butter and mix thoroughly.
- Whisk the liquid ingredients: eggs, milk and vanilla. Add sugar and grated coconut or desiccated coconut. Mix them together. Add water if necessary to make a nice batter.
- Bake in a preheated oven until done.
- Make syrup and soaked the cake in it. Leave to rest and sprinkle coconut.
How to Make Basbousa - Semolina Cakes With Syrup. It is basically semolina cake that has been soaked in a sugar/honey syrup. This dessert is supposed to be really sweet and it tastes best that way, but you can adjust the quantity of sugar that goes into the. 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.
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