How to Make Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura in 13 Minutes for Young Wife

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Namora is a semolina cake soaked in sugar syrup that is often found on baklava platters. Combine three cups sugar, lemon juice, and water in a small saucepan. Semolina Cake is a Middle Eastern dessert that is similar in texture to cornbread, only sweeter and drenched in honey.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

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

Prepare the sugar syrup and let it cool. Mix the semolina, softened butter and sugar with your hands until well blended. The nammoura will keep up to a week in an air-tight container. What I loved about this cake was that it was so different from the cakes I normally bake.

Steps 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.

First, it used no butter, then it used very little flour, and finally was doused in a lemony sugar syrup that was simply divine. Anyway, I could (as I am wont to do) go on and on. Basbousa is a traditional Middle Eastern moist cake-like sweet or dessert using semolina/suji/cream of wheat, baked and soaked in a sugar syrup, either flavored with orange blossom or rose water. The other names for it used in different parts of the middle east are "Harissa", "ravani or revani" etc. I chose to soak my Semolina Cake in orange juice and orange blossom water, and the combination is outstanding.

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