Egyptian Basbousa

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups semolina

1/4 cup grated coconut

1/2 cup milk

1 cup sugar

3 tbsps. honey.

Instructions

In a deep dish, mix semolina, sugar and coconut.

Add the ghee and beat well by hand until the granules absorb the ghee, and get sandy mixture

Add honey and mix with fingers

Add the milk and stir until combined and do not over mix

Cover the dough and let it rest for one to two hours

Spread in the oven tray greased with ghee or tahini, and spread the nuts on top and press them by hand put it in the oven at 180 degrees until it turns golden color, for about 30 minutes

Add with boiled syrup when it

1 1/2 cups of sugar

1 1/2 cups of water.

Two squeezes of lemon.

Instructions pot on the stove till boils

Put sugar and water in Add the lemon and leave to boil 5 minutes.

Pour hot syrup on basbousa as soon as it t f

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1 tbsp custard powder

Instructions

1 tbsp. sugar. ready made basbousa nuts for decorating in a pan add, milk, custard powder, sugar stir on medium heat till it get thick in the cups add layer of basbousa, and a layer of custard decorate with nuts, put in the fridge till serving time.

Ingredients

Ingredients

A cup and a half of warm water

One tablespoon of sugar.

One tablespoon of powdered milk

1/4 cup fine semolina

A cup of all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

One and a half teaspoon baking powder.

Instruction

In a mixer or with hand blender, mix all the ingredients well

Pour the mixture into a deep dish, cover and let it rest for 10 minutes.

Place a non-stick frying pan over medium heat lift it on a clean towel, and cover it with the towel so that it stays soft

Pour the amount of a table spoon to make one piece of Qatayef leave it until bubbles form and dry.

Ingredients

175 grams of butter (3/4 cup)

175ml Eastern Coconut Milk

“3/4 cup”

290 gm sugar “a cup and a half”

3 eggs

225 gm all purpose flour (1 3/4 cups)

1 1/2 tsps. baking powder.

1/8 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

6 tbsps coconut grated

4 tbsps coconut milk

2 tbsps. grated coconut.

Instruction

Beat the softened butter and sugar until it becomes a creamy mixture.

Add eggs and vanilla and mix

Add coconut milk and mix well for serving put the mixture in a mold greased with butter and sprinkled with a pinch of flour, bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 50 minutes in a preheated oven, or until a chopstick comes out clean from the cake. Once it comes out of the oven, we make holes in the surface and water it with 4 tablespoons of coconut milk Leave it for 10 minutes, turn it over, brush the surface

Add the sifted flour mixture, baking powder and salt and mix at a slow speed until the ingredients are mixed

Heavy syrup

For crunchy desserts that maintain their crunch like Balah al-Sham the components:

Two cups of white sugar, a cup of water, juice of half a lemon

Medium syrup

We use for kunafa, lebanon nights, basbousah.. the components: put the ingredients in a pot on the fire and leave it until it boils

Two cups of white sugar, two cups of water, juice of half a lemon

Reduce heat to boil 5 minutes

Leave to cool and store in a dry glass container until use