Paella and Basbousa
The Spanish girlfriend cooked us the most delicious seafood paella.Dessert was, by special request,
basbousa (بسبوسة)
basbousa (بسبوسة)
Batter:1/2 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup sugar
2 small eggs
2 cups semolina
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup water
Cream butter and sugar, beat in eggs, stir in water.
Sift together semolina, baking powder, baking soda.
Mix dry ingredients into creamed mixture.
Bake in preheated oven 180C for 40 minutes.
Syrup:
1 3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup water
juice from 1 lemon
Boil sugar in water till dissolved. Add lemon juice. Simmer 10 minutes.
Pour syrup onto hot basbousa. Let stand overnight.
8 comments:
dessert looks really yum!
edpjunkie - i make this next time u come over :) i sort of totally forgotten about this dessert.
oooh! how delicious! yummy colors all of them!
imp - :)
ok, cant wait for next dinner :)
edpjunkie - has to be end April after trip. soon enough :)
Oh there's another trip again? :P that's plenty of holidays.
wg - there're 3 trips minimum that i know of for the rest of the year :)
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