Basbousa (The semovita cake)

NanaSkitchen
NanaSkitchen @cook_16760378
Kano

Basbousa is an Arabian dessert made from semovita and other ingredients. It is very delicious and easy to make.I made this amazing basbousa for my family . We all loved it and we are still craving for more 😋

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Ingredients

  1. For the cake batter
  2. 2 cupssemovita
  3. 1/2 cupflour
  4. 1 cupyogurt
  5. 1/3 cupsugar
  6. 2/3 cupmelted butter or ghee
  7. 1 cupcoconut
  8. 1 tspvanilla
  9. 2 tspbaking powder
  10. 3eggs
  11. Sugar syrup
  12. 2 cupssugar
  13. 2 cupswater
  14. 1 tsplemon juice

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Mix all dry ingredients and set aside (flour,semo,sugar,baking powder,coconut)

  2. 2

    Add wet ingredients (yogurt,eggs,vanilla,butter)to the dry ingredients and mix until well combined

  3. 3

    Pour the cake batter in a greased pan or baking dish,evenly distribute the batter and bake in a preheated oven for 30-35 minutes

  4. 4

    While you are baking the cake,quickly make your sugar syrup. Add sugar,water and lemon juice in a pot,stir and boil for 5 minutes then set aside

  5. 5

    When the cake is brown and well baked,remove from the oven and pour half of the sugar syrup on the cake. Cut it into squares and add the remaining syrup

  6. 6

    Allow the basbousa to fully absorb the syrup (to get moist),garnish with coconut and lemon slices. Enjoy 😋😋

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NanaSkitchen
NanaSkitchen @cook_16760378
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I'm Fatima Abba Kabir, I have so much passion for cooking, baking, frying and everything related to kitchen. I'm a microbiologist by profession
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