Basbousa Middle Eastern Semolina Slice

Soaked in a sweet, fragrant syrup, this semolina slice is popular throughout the Middle East. This version happens to be vegan, too!

The ingredient of Basbousa Middle Eastern Semolina Slice

• 2 cups coarse semolina
• 1 cup desiccated coconut
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 cup self raising flour
• 1 cup lemonade
• 3 4 cup coconut oil melted cooled
• 24 natural almond kernels
• 1 1 2 cups caster sugar
• 1 tsp rosewater essence
• 1 tsp lemon juice

The Instruction of basbousa middle eastern semolina slice

• preheat oven to 200c 180c fan forced grease a 6cm deep 22cm x 33cm rectangular roasting pan
• combine semolina coconut sugar and flour in a large bowl make a well in the centre add lemonade and oil stir until combined press mixture into prepared pan cut slice into diamonds press 1 almond into the centre of each diamond cover with a tea towel set aside for 15 minutes remove tea towel
• bake for 30 minutes or until golden
• meanwhile make rosewater sugar syrup place sugar and 1 1 2 cups of water in a small saucepan over low heat cook stirring for 3 to 5 minutes or until sugar dissolves bring to a simmer simmer for 3 minutes or until slightly thickened remove from heat stir in rosewater essence and lemon juice
• gradually pour hot syrup over hot slice allowing syrup to soak into slice cool slice in pan recut into diamonds serve

Nutritions of Basbousa Middle Eastern Semolina Slice

fatContent: 242 346 calories
saturatedFatContent: 9 7 grams fat
carbohydrateContent: 7 8 grams saturated fat
sugarContent: 37 2 grams carbohydrates
fibreContent: n a
proteinContent: n a
cholesterolContent: 2 4 grams protein
sodiumContent: n a

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