Recipe: Appetizing Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake)

Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake). Basbousa: Almond Coconut Semolina Cake Recipe. Semolina treats are popular throughout the Middle East and parts of Europe. There are, quite frankly, too many semolina cake variations out there.

Treat your taste buds to the super moist and decadent Middle Eastern (Egyptian) classic made with semolina and coconut. So, let me introduce you to a beautiful cake with an added dose of sweetness - basbousa, the classic Middle Eastern cake made with semolina and sweetened with. This Egyptian recipe for sweet semolina cake is incredibly easy to make. You can cook Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake) using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake)

1. Prepare 2 cups of semolina.
2. It's 1 cup of desiccated coconut.
3. It's 1 cup of ghee (clarified butter).
4. It's 1 tin of condensed milk (sweetened 397 gms).
5. It's 1 of & 1/4 cup water.
6. It's 1 tablespoon of baking powder.
7. You need of OPTIONAL: pinch of vanilla powder and pinch of cardamom powder.
8. You need of SUGAR SYRUP : 3 cups water, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 lemon slice, few cardamom pods.

It's topped with a delicious rosewater and lemon syrup. Mix the semolina, coconut, sugar, flour, yoghurt, melted butter and vanilla in a bowl. If the mixture seems too thick, add a little milk, but it. Basbousa, an Egyptian semolina cake with yogurt is one of the best Egyptian desserts that comes out fairly quick.

Coconut Basbousa (semolina cake) step by step

1. 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 !.
2. 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..
3. 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..
4. 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!.
5. Serving tip: use cupcake liners / wrappers to serve individual pieces !.

Authentic Egyptian basbousa recipe that is soft and stays soft. A delicious coconut, yogurt and semolina/farina cake that gets sprinkled with nuts and drizzled with syrup to put the final. Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi explore a region of rich, cross-cultural culinary traditions in Jerusalem. Semolina cakes soaked in syrup are so numerous all over the Middle East and vary in so many ways it is hard to find a single definition. The basbousa was gone in no time and everyone wondered what this wonderful cake was called.