Basbosa - Egyptian coconut cake
Votes: 15
Required culinary skills:
- How to use a wooden spoon to stir ingredients.
- How to grease a rectangular baking pan.
- How to place the pan in the oven.
- How to cut Basbousa into diamonds.
The hardest part is obviously the last one, so if you're not striving for perfection, just skip it and cut it into rectangles—no one will complain! Also, the Basbousa recipe calls for almost two cups of syrup, which might seem like too much, but I assure you, it's not. You need to soak the warm cake with exactly the full volume of cool syrup.
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Complexity: easily
Servings: 15 - 18
Complexity: easily
Servings: 15 - 18
If you've never been to the Arab world, you've likely never heard of Basbousa. So, let me introduce you to this wonderful, easy pie that takes no more than 10 minutes to make.
The recipes use measuring containers with the following volumes:
1 glass (st.) - 250 ml.
3/4 cup (st.) - 180 ml.
2/3 cup (st.) - 160 ml.
1/2 cup (st.) - 125 ml.
1/3 cup (st.) - 80 ml.
1/4 cup (st.) - 60 ml.
1 tablespoon (tbsp) - 15 ml.
1 teaspoon (tsp) - 5 ml.
1/5 teaspoon (tsp) - 1 ml.
1 glass (st.) - 250 ml.
3/4 cup (st.) - 180 ml.
2/3 cup (st.) - 160 ml.
1/2 cup (st.) - 125 ml.
1/3 cup (st.) - 80 ml.
1/4 cup (st.) - 60 ml.
1 tablespoon (tbsp) - 15 ml.
1 teaspoon (tsp) - 5 ml.
1/5 teaspoon (tsp) - 1 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Dough
- Butter – 150 grams
- Condensed milk - 400 grams
- Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
- Eggs – 2 pieces
- Semolina – 2 cups
- Coconut flakes - 1 cup
- Coconut milk - 1 glass
Syrup
- Sugar – 1.5 cups
- Water – 1 glass
- Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon
- Orange food coloring - 1 teaspoon
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Cooking the dish according to the recipe:
- Preheat oven to 180 C.
- Grease a large rectangular baking dish with butter. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, using a large wooden spoon, mix together the butter, condensed milk and baking powder. Add the eggs and mix well. Add the semolina, coconut flakes, and coconut milk. Mix well again.
- Place the dough into the prepared pan and bake for 35-40 minutes (until the top is golden brown).
- Prepare the syrup. Place the sugar and water in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat for about 8-10 minutes. Remove from heat and add the lemon juice and orange coloring.
- Once the Basbousa is cooked, remove it from the oven, let it cool on a wire rack and pour over the syrup.
Serve at room temperature.
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