Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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:
- Take 1 kg semolina
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
- Make ready 1 cup milk
- Make ready 1 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon mastic gum, crushed in ½ teaspoon sugar
- Take 4 teaspoons baking powder
- Make ready 3 teaspoons orange blossom water
- Make ready 3 teaspoons rose water
- Take 1 teaspoon tahini, sesame paste
- Take - For the sugar syrup:
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups water
- Make ready 1 teaspoon rose water
- Prepare 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
- Get 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Prepare - For garnishing:
- Get 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. Make the syrup while the cakes are baking.
Steps to make Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura:
- 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.
- For the batter, mix all the ingredients together, except the tahini.
- 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.
- Preheat the oven to medium heat. Put the tray in the oven on the middle rack and bake for around 30 min.
- 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.
- 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.
- Take out the cake and place an almond in the middle of each lozenge piece. Serve at room temperature.
Dense cake/bars with Middle Eastern flavors like rose water and orange blossom water. Good for every occasion, great after a meal, or with tea or coffee. I chose to soak my Semolina Cake in orange juice and orange blossom water, and the combination is outstanding. The syrup has just melted into the cake and you can see this wonderful sheen coming through. The first bites and we feel the moistness of this cake.
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