Eggless Basbousa
Basbousa, Middle Eastern sweet cake , is traditionally made with semolina, flavored with orange blossom water or rose water. I've added some of my favorite ingredients to the recipe ... pistachios, orange slices and bay leaves. It has a nutty taste with grainy texture.
If you're already craving for the cake and looking for an egg-free recipe then you are at right place ... Go ahead and bake this moist cake soaked with delightful, aromatic and citrus syrup for yourself !!!
Ingredients
For cake
Fine semolina 2 cups
Curd 1 cup
Khandsari sugar (powdered) 1/3 cup
Baking powder 1 tsp
Baking soda 1 tsp
Orange zest 1 tbsp
Melted butter 100 gm
Milk 1/4 cup
For syrup
Khandsari sugar 1 & 1/2 cup
Water 1 cup
Orange slices 5
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Fab orange blossom flavor few drops
Bay leaves 2
Method
- Grease the 8" mould .
- Preheat the oven to 170° C.
- Mix all the ingredients for cake to get a thick batter.
- Pour the batter in prepared tin and bake for 40-45 minutes or until done.
- To make syrup, boil water in a sauce pan.
- Add sugar, bay leaves and orange slices . Let it simmer for another 6-7 minutes.
- Take it off from heat and add lemon juice and orange blossom extract.
- Remove orange slices before pouring it on cake.
- When the cake is out of oven, allow it to cool for few minutes and pour half of the syrup over warm cake.
- Set it aside for half an hour, pour the remaining syrup .
- Allow the flavors to develop by leaving it aside for at least one hour to let the cake soak the syrup completely.
- Garnish with gulkand and pistachios.
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