Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to 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. Place the semolina, melted butter and sugar in a large bowl and stir until well combined; set aside.
Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura:
- Get 1 kg semolina
- Prepare 1 cup sugar
- Make ready 1 cup milk
- Prepare 1 cup vegetable oil
- Get 1/2 teaspoon mastic gum, crushed in ½ teaspoon sugar
- Take 4 teaspoons baking powder
- Take 3 teaspoons orange blossom water
- Make ready 3 teaspoons rose water
- Make ready 1 teaspoon tahini, sesame paste
- Make ready - For the sugar syrup:
- Get 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Take 1 1/2 cups water
- Get 1 teaspoon rose water
- Take 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
- Prepare 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Get - For garnishing:
- Get 25 almonds, cut in halves
The nammoura will keep up to a week in an air-tight container. Make the syrup while the cakes are baking. What I loved about this cake was that it was so different from the cakes I normally bake. First, it used no butter, then it used very little flour, and finally was doused in a lemony sugar syrup that was simply divine.
Instructions 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.
Anyway, I could (as I am wont to do) go on and on. Prepare the Sugar Syrup: -Boil together sugar and water. -Add lemon juice, when the syrup starts thickening. -Add rose water and orange blossom water just before you turn off the heat or right after. Check out Turkish Semolina Cake in Syrup for a subtle twist on this simple recipe. While the cake is still warm, cover it with the syrup. When the cake cools, you can sprinkle with some powdered sugar, cinnamon, and the almonds, if you're using them.
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