Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, classic egyptian basbousa. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have classic egyptian basbousa using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Classic Egyptian basbousa:

1. Take 3 cups semolina (medium Coarse)
2. Make ready 2/3 cup ghee (clarified butter)
3. Get 2/3 cup fresh milk
4. Get 2 tablespoons extra melted ghee
5. Prepare Heavy sugar syrup
6. Get Light sugar syrup
7. Make ready 1/3 cup dessicated coconut
8. Take 1 1/4 sugar
9. Take Nuts of choice (optional)
10. Get Eshta (clotted cream) for serving
11. Get Juice of one lemon

This one is super soft, dense, never ever cake-y, and melt-in-the-mouth delicious. People of the World…Ladies and Gentlemen…Boys and Girls… Please make way, give a big round of applause, scream your loudest cheer and show some love […] Basbousa. Treat your taste buds to the super moist and decadent Middle Eastern (Egyptian) classic made with semolina and coconut. With the added sweetness from rose flavored sugar syrup, this cake is the ideal way to take your celebrations to the next level.

Instructions to make Classic Egyptian basbousa:

1. Ingredients
2. To make the heavy sugar add 1/3 sugar to a pot then add 2 tablespoons water and drop of lemon juice. Cook till the sugar dissolves and set aside
3. In a bowl add your semolina with two tablespoons melted ghee and rub make sure each semolina is coated.
4. In a microwave safe bowl add the sugar syrup normal sugar and milk to d bowl and microwave till sugar dissolves. Set aside
5. Now pour the milk sugar mixture in the middle followed by the melted ghee and mix gently (do not over mix it has high gluten more than that of flour)
6. Grease your baking pan with ghee and add the mixture tap the tray on ground several times to remove air bubbles refrigerate for 15 minutes
7. Now add your crushed nuts if you’re using one and gently press it in to the batter (it will set now)
8. Bake in a preheated oven at 210 degrees for 22-25 minutes till golden brown
9. To make soaking syrup add 1 1/2 cup sugar with 1 1/4 cup water abd drop of lemon juice till the sugar melts
10. Pour the soaking syrup immediately after bringing out of the oven(do not over soak it else it will become soggy and difficult to handle) brush the top with melted ghee.
11. Cut them in to squares and serve with clotted cream (qeshta)

Treat your taste buds to the super moist and decadent Middle Eastern (Egyptian) classic made with semolina and coconut. With the added sweetness from rose flavored sugar syrup, this cake is the ideal way to take your celebrations to the next level. Basbousa is an Egyptian classic cake made from durum semolina and a whole lot of dairy which is also popular in many other Middle Eastern countries. The cake is quite rich with a unique texture but it's the syrup that provides all the flavour! It's a dense semolina yoghurt cake flavoured with brown butter and honey and doused with rose, lemon and cardamom syrup.

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