Semolina Cake

Name: Semolina Cake
Total time: 3300 s
Yield: 4 persons
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup fine semolina; 1/4 cup wheat flour; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 cup curd; 1/4 cup ghee; 1/4 cup milk; 1 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1/4 tsp salt; 1 tsp cardamom powder; 1/2 tsp saffron; 2 tbsp powdered sugar; 2 tbsp lemon juice; 2 tbsp coarsly grinded pistachio

Deepa Rupani @dollopsbydipa

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Unlike regular cake , Semolina cake has a different texture, though it is moist. Semolina cake is very much inspired by the Mediterranean dessert Basbousa. Basbousa is a cake prepared from semolina which is infused with saffron and topped up with lemon, rose, orange syrup or honey and nuts.
I made this cake egg free and with ingredients of my choice. I skipped adding coconut as my family don't like it much. So here is an Indian version of Basbousa.

Deepa Rupani @dollopsbydipa

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Ingredients

55 minutes

4 persons

1 cupfine semolina
1/4 cupwheat flour
1/2 cupsugar
1 cupcurd
1/4 cupghee
1/4 cupmilk
1 tspbaking powder
1/2 tspbaking soda
1/4 tspsalt
1 tspcardamom powder
1/2 tspsaffron
For glaze and topping:
2 tbsppowdered sugar
2 tbsplemon juice
2 tbspcoarsly grinded pistachio

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Steps

55 minutes

1

Mix semolina and sugar and grind it till the sugar is ground properly.
2

Transfer it into a vessel, add salt, baking powder, baking soda and mix well.
3

Now add curd to this, mix well, cover and keep aside.
4

Prepare baking tin by greasing and lining butter paper. Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 180℃.
5

In a mixing bowl, add milk, ghee,saffron and cardamom powder and whisk it till everything Incorporates well.
6

Now add this to semolina mixture and mix it by cut and fold method. Do not mix more.
7

Pour it into prepared baking tin and bake it in a preheated oven for 30-40 minutes at 180℃. Check doneness of the cake after 30 minutes by inserting tooth pick.
8

Once it is baked, keep it in tin for 10 minutes then unmold it on a wire rack and let it come to the room temperature.
9

When the cake is baking, prepare the glaze by mixing lemon juice and powdered sugar.
10

Once cake comes to room temperature, pour prepared glaze on top and sprinkle pistachio.
11

Enjoy and relish with tea coffee or as you wish.