Preheat oven to 180 and grease baking dish

Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl

Add beaten egg, yoghurt, oil, vanilla extract to dry mixture. Mix well to ensure no lumps are present

Pour the above mixture to baking dish

Bake for 30-40 minutes until top is browned. It should not get burnt or blackened

While it's baking, prepare sugar syrup

Boil sugar, water, rose water, lemon juice in a saucepan. Boil until syrup is thick and coats behind the spoon

Once Basbousa is baked, take it out from oven. Pour the sugar syrup immediately on top. Let it stand until syrup is completely absorbed by Basbousa

Sprinkle coconut flakes/ Dessicated coconut on top of Basbousa evenly

You can add crushed pistachios or almonds on top for additional garnishing

Refrigerate for 6-7 hours or overnight

Cut in diamond shapes and serve cold