Basbousa (Semolina Cake)
Egypt
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Basbousa is a semolina cake soaked in sugar syrup, and it is one of Egypt's best known desserts. It is scored into diamonds before baking, an almond pressed into each one, and the cooled syrup poured over while the cake is still hot. Its names change across the region. It is revani in Turkey and the Balkans, hareesa in the Levant, namoura in Lebanon, and basbousa across Egypt and much of the Arab world. The Arabic word basbousa translates roughly as just a kiss, which is an unusually charming piece of naming for a cake. Coarse semolina is the ingredient that defines it and desiccated coconut is the second. Semolina gives the slightly grainy, dense crumb that no flour cake reproduces, and it needs time to hydrate: the batter rests half an hour in the tin before baking, which is a step easy to skip and hard to recover from. The syrup rule is the one that decides the result: cooled syrup onto hot cake, then a final five minutes back in the oven so it is fully absorbed. The scoring must go all the way through after baking, or the syrup sits on top rather than sinking in.
Basbousa is an Egyptian semolina cake soaked in sugar syrup, known as revani in Turkey and the Balkans, hareesa in the Levant and namoura in Lebanon. The Arabic name translates roughly as just a kiss.
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First make the syrup. Combine the water, sugar and lemon juice in a small pan and bring to the boil. Lower the heat and simmer gently for 5 to 8 minutes.
Turn off the heat, stir in the rosewater or vanilla, and set the syrup aside to cool completely.
In a large bowl, mix the semolina, flour, baking powder, sugar, coconut and salt.
In a jug, mix the yoghurt, melted butter, eggs and vanilla.
Make a well in the dry ingredients and gradually add the liquid, mixing with a spatula into a thick batter.
Pour and level the batter into a greased 11x7 inch pan and lightly score the top into diamonds or squares.
Press a whole almond into the middle of each piece.
Cover and set the pan aside for half an hour so the semolina absorbs the liquid. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 180°C.
Uncover and bake for 40 minutes.
Remove from the oven and carefully cut all the way through the marks you scored earlier.
Pour the cooled syrup as evenly as possible over the hot basbousa.
Return the pan to the oven for a further 5 minutes.
Let it rest at least 30 minutes before cutting out the pieces and serving.
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