Basbousa Recipe - Middle Eastern Semolina Cake

Name: Basbousa Recipe - Middle Eastern Semolina Cake
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 100 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1 ½ cup Semolina (1 1/2 cup Sooji (Semolina/ Rava)); 2 cup Granulated Sugar (1 cup Sugar + 1 cup Sugar); 1 cup Desiccated Coconut (1 cup Dessicated Coconut); ½ cup All-Purpose Flour (1/2 cup All Purpose Flour (Maida)); 1 tsp Baking Powder (1 teaspoon Baking powder); ½ cup Vegetable Oil (1/2 cup Oil); 1 cup Whole Milk (1 cup Milk); 1 tsp Vanilla (1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract or essence); 10 pieces Almond (10 Whole Almonds (Badam) cut into half); 1 cup Water (1 cup Water); 1 tsp Lemon Juice (1 teaspoon Lemon juice); 1 tsp Rose Essence (1 teaspoon Rose Essence)

Basbousa Recipe - Middle Eastern Semolina Cake - Dessert Recipes (Middle Eastern)

100 minMiddle Eastern

Servings4

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Steps

1To prepare Basbousa recipe (Middle Eastern Semolina Cake), let us make sugar syrup first, by adding a cup of sugar and water along with lemon juice in a thick bottomed saucepan.
2Bring the sugar syrup to boil and cook until slightly sticky.
3Add rose essence, mix well, remove from heat and keep it aside.
4Preheat Oven to 180 degree Celsius and grease a Baking tin with oil and keep it ready.
5In a bowl, combine together semolina, sugar, desiccated coconut, all-purpose flour and baking powder. Combine well.
6To this add milk, vanilla essence and oil and combine evenly into thick batter.
7Pour this batter to the greased cake tin and spread evenly. Line it with a sharp knife to get diamond/rectangle shape. Place the almond at the center of each piece and press very lightly.
8Bake it for about 45-50 minutes or till the top turns golden brown.
9Remove from the oven. Line it with a sharp knife again.
10Pour the cold sugar syrup over the hot basbousa recipe or Middle eastern semolina cake. Cover the whole pan of basbousa with sugar syrup.
11Allow the basbousa recipe to soak for 30 minutes.
12Our eggless Middle Eastern semolina Cake or Basbousa is ready to be served immediately during tea time or as a dinner party dessert.