Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura is something that I have loved my whole life.

To prepare the sugar syrup, put the sugar and water in a small saucepan and place over medium heat. Add the orange blossom water and rose water. Remove from heat and transfer to a large bowl. A sticky and sweet dessert from Lebanon, these decadent cakes made of coarse semolina are so simple to make that you can easily end up with more than enough to tide you through waves after waves of Eid visitors.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura:

1. Make ready 1 kg semolina
2. Take 1 cup sugar
3. Get 1 cup milk
4. Take 1 cup vegetable oil
5. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon mastic gum, crushed in ½ teaspoon sugar
6. Get 4 teaspoons baking powder
7. Get 3 teaspoons orange blossom water
8. Get 3 teaspoons rose water
9. Prepare 1 teaspoon tahini, sesame paste
10. Make ready - For the sugar syrup:
11. Get 2 1/2 cups sugar
12. Make ready 1 1/2 cups water
13. Prepare 1 teaspoon rose water
14. Take 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
15. Prepare 1 teaspoon lemon juice
16. Get - For garnishing:
17. Prepare 25 almonds, cut in halves

The yeast gives it its spongy texture, and the sugar syrup gives it its distinctive extra sweet taste. Once the cake is in the oven, mix syrup ingredients and stir over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. The syrup will thicken further as it cools. Drizzle the cake with the syrup.

Instructions to make Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura:

1. To prepare the sugar syrup, put the sugar and water in a small saucepan and place over medium heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Leave to boil then add the lemon juice and keep on medium heat for 10 min until the syrup thickens. Add the orange blossom water and rose water. Remove from heat and transfer to a large bowl.
2. For the batter, mix all the ingredients together, except the tahini.
3. Grease the bottom and sides of a 30 cm diameter baking tray with the tahini. Spread evenly the batter in the tray and leave to rest at room temperature for 1½ hr.
4. Preheat the oven to medium heat. Put the tray in the oven on the middle rack and bake for around 30 min.
5. Remove from the oven and cut the cake into lozenges while still in the pan. Return the tray to the oven on the top rack until the cake's surface turns golden brown.
6. Turn off the oven. Pour the sugar syrup over the cake while it is still hot and place it back in the oven for a while until the syrup is absorbed.
7. Take out the cake and place an almond in the middle of each lozenge piece. Serve at room temperature.

The syrup will thicken further as it cools. Drizzle the cake with the syrup. The syrup will soak in as the cake cools off. The Namoura (نمورة) cake is so easy to make. In a large bowl mix the sugar, semolina, and butter together.

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