Basbousa An Egyptian Semolina Cake

Hi Friends

Do you know Why I made this. :) because I watched The Mummy Returns Movie again and again :) Liked it and also visited King Tut Museum, New York.It was very fantastic and known everything about their life and histories.After  NY trip, I had painted one of the Egyptian Paintings  :) Its just on my own :)I had enjoyed seeing movie, known interesting facts about Egypt and I want to try something new which we never heard of! So finally found an Egyptian Dessert called as "Basbousa" :)

Basbousa is an Egyptian dessert made up of Semolina soaked in sweet flavored syrup and garnished with nuts. It is so tempting :) Here is the recipe as below

Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup of semolina
• 1/4 cup of All Purpose Flour
• 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 cup Grated coconut mixed with 1 Tablespoon sugar or Sweetened Desiccated coconut
• 1/2  cup sugar

Wet Ingredients:

• 1 Egg
• 1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract or 1/4 to 1/2 Tsp Almond Extract
• 1/2 cup  milk
• 1/4 cup Unsalted Butter

Notes : Replace the egg by substituting 1/2 cup Condensed milk and no need to add sugar. 

For Syrup:

• 1 cup Water
• 1 cup  sugar
• 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 1/2 to 1  tablespoon of Rose water or Orange Flower Water.

Method:

1.  For making the semolina cake,

• First add all the dry ingredients and mix well by using whisker.
• Mix all the wet ingredients until it is well combined.
• Pour the Wet mixture to the dry ingredient mixture and mix well until it is well combined and no lumps.
• Preheat the oven to 350F or 180 C
• Grease the butter or baking spray to the 6 Inch or 8 inch round pan or Square pan 9 inch.(I had used 6 inch round pan)
• Pour the batter to the greased baking pan and spread it evenly.
• Take a knife and try to make it into any desired shape 
• Bake it for about 30 to 35 Minutes or until a tooth pick is cleaned.
• Allow it to cool.

2. For Preparing the Syrup

• In a saucepan ,mix all the ingredients and heat it on Medium high flame
• Reaches it until boiling point.
• It forms a string consistency.
• Once simmering into low flame for about 10 minutes,
• Add Rose water or orange flower water
• Turn off the heat.
• Allow it to cool.
•  Pour it into the measuring cup for easy to handle and helps to pour it evenly.

3.Pouring the Syrup to the cooled cake.

• Pour the thickened sugar syrup to the semolina cake evenly.

4.Serving

• Retrace and cut into diamond shaped cake and garnish it with almonds or pistachios or dessicated coconut on the top if you want
• Serve it :)

Here is the image of Basbousa Semolina Cake