Basbousa Recipe
Basbousa also Basboussa is a dessert recipe found in the cuisines of the eastern Mediterranean under a variety of names, but in Egypt they call it Basbousa.
Sugar Syrup Ingredients:
Sugar Syrup Ingredients:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon clarified butter
- 2 talbespoons lemon juice
- Put ingredients for sugar syrup into a pot and bring to a boil.
- Add 1 tablespoon clarified butter.
- Simmer for about 15 minutes and cool.
- 2 cups semolina flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup coconut flakes
- 1 cup clarified butter
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 talbespoon plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds, or 1/2 cup chopped hazelnuts
- Mix the sugar, coconut and semolina flour.
- Put the milk and butter in a pot and bring to a boil.
- Add the semolina mixture to the milk and butter, plus remaining ingredients and mix well.
- Coat a baking tray with butter.
- Pour into a baking tray 1/2 inch high and distribute evenly.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 35 minutes until golden-yellow.
- Remove from the oven and distribute slivered almonds or chopped hazelnuts over the top of the backed Basbousa. Press the nuts gently with your finger.
- Leave the Basbousa to cool for 1 hour.
- Soak with the cold sugar syrup.
- Bake at 200 degrees for 5 minutes until golden-yellow.
- Cut into pieces and serve warm or cold.
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