Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, coconut basbousa (semolina cake). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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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. This Coconut Basbousa (بسبوسة)is an easy and delicious Middle Eastern dessert. Made with semolina and shredded coconut, this dessert has a sweet, nutty flavor to it.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have coconut basbousa (semolina cake) using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake):
- Make ready 2 cups semolina
- Take 1 cup desiccated coconut
- Get 1 cup ghee (clarified butter)
- Take 1 tin condensed milk (sweetened 397 gms)
- Get 1 & 1/4 cup water
- Make ready 1 tablespoon baking powder
- Get OPTIONAL: pinch of vanilla powder and pinch of cardamom powder
- Get SUGAR SYRUP : 3 cups water, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 lemon slice, few cardamom pods
Now add in the semolina, baking powder and milk. Finally stir in the melted butter. It combines semolina, coconut, yogurt, sugar and simple syrup to create a truly delightful dessert. Basbousa cake is a dessert from the Middle East that is made primarily from a semolina flour.
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 !
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
It combines semolina, coconut, yogurt, sugar and simple syrup to create a truly delightful dessert. Basbousa cake is a dessert from the Middle East that is made primarily from a semolina flour. It is popular throughout the Middle Eastern countries, as well as North Africa, Iran, Greece and Turkey. In Egypt this is the main dessert served during the feasts, and. Sugar syrup or condensed milk to glaze.
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