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    Coconut Basbousa Recipe

    Last Updated On: Apr 8, 2025 by Aarthi

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    Coconut Basbousa Recipe with step by step pictures. The main ingredient of this cake is semolina and coconut. It is mildly sweet and after baking it is soaked in sugar syrup which is flavoured with rose syrup.

    Eggless Coconut Basbousa

    I came across this recipe just a few weeks ago. I have seen this in cooking shows and in many other cooking blogs. Really wanted to try this recipe, but many of this recipe has eggs in it. Wanted to try it without eggs, so modified the recipe accordingly and tried it. It came out pretty good. The taste of this was more like a firmer version of a south Indian sweet called as kesari with some taste different.

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    • About Coconut Basbousa Recipe
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    • Coconut Basbousa Recipe | Eggless Coconut Basbousa Recipe
    • Eggless Coconut Basbousa Recipe Step by Step

    About Coconut Basbousa Recipe

    This recipe is originally from Egypt. You can add some almonds on top of the cake too. The cake has a lovely aroma of rosewater, saffron and cardamom. I tried it warm as well as cold, but i liked it more when it is warm. I added fresh coconut in this, but if you want to store this for some more days add desiccated coconut. If you add fresh ones it will get spoiled soon.

    Ingredients for Coconut Basbousa Recipe

    Dry Ingredients:

    • Fine Semolina / Fine Rawa - 1 cup
    • Coconut - 1 cup
    • Flour - ½ cup
    • Sugar - ¾ cup
    • Baking powder - 1 tsp
    • Saffron - a pinch
    • Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
    • Salt - ½ tsp

    Wet Ingredients:

    • Yogurt - 1 ½ cup
    • Butter - ½ cup melted

    For Syrup:

    • Sugar - ½ cup
    • Water - ½ cup
    • Rose Water - 1 tsp

    Hope you will try it and let me know how it turned out.

    How to Make Eggless Coconut Basbousa

    1. Grease a 20 x 20 cm pan with butter and set aside. Preheat the oven to 170 Degree C / 350 Degree F.
    2. Take all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Mix well.
    3. Now add in yogurt and butter in it and mix well.
    4. Pour this in a greased pan and bake it for 45 to 50 mins.
    5. Remove it from oven and cool it down. Cut this into slices.
    6. Now make syrup. Take sugar and water in a sauce pan and heat it till it is melted. Simmer for 5 mins.
    7. Remove this to a bowl. Add in rose water and mix well.
    8. Pour this over the cake and let it soak, allow it to cool down.
    9. Serve.

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    Coconut Basbousa Recipe | Eggless Coconut Basbousa Recipe

    Eggless Coconut Basbousa Recipe with step by step pictures. The main ingredient of this cake is semolina and coconut. It is mildly sweet and after baking it is soaked in sugar syrup which is flavored with rose syrup.
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    Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 1 hour hour
    Total Time: 1 hour hour 5 minutes minutes
    Servings: 16 pieces
    Calories: 111kcal

    Ingredients

    • Dry Ingredients:
    • 1 cup Fine Semolina | Sooji
    • 1 cup Coconut
    • ½ cup All Purpose Flour
    • ¾ cup Sugar
    • 1 tsp Baking powder
    • Saffron - a pinch
    • 1 tsp Cardamom powder
    • ½ tsp Salt
    • Wet Ingredients:
    • 1 ½ cup Yogurt
    • ½ cup melted Butter
    • For Syrup:
    • ½ cup Sugar
    • ½ cup Water
    • 1 tsp Rose Water

    Instructions

    • Grease a 20 x 20 cm pan with butter and set aside. Preheat the oven to 170 Degree C / 350 Degree F.
    • Take all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Mix well.
    • Now add in yogurt and butter in it and mix well.
    • Pour this in a greased pan and bake it for 45 to 50 mins.
    • Remove it from oven and cool it down. Cut this into slices.
    • Now make syrup. Take sugar and water in a sauce pan and heat it till it is melted. Simmer for 5 mins.
    • Remove this to a bowl. Add in rose water and mix well.
    • Pour this over the cake and let it soak, allow it to cool down.
    • Serve.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1servings | Calories: 111kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 3mg | Sodium: 111mg | Potassium: 59mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 23IU | Vitamin C: 0.3mg | Calcium: 45mg | Iron: 0.2mg
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    Eggless Coconut Basbousa Recipe Step by Step

    Take all your ingredients
    You will need saffron, cardamom powder, salt, baking powder
    Take all your dry ingredients in a bowl
    Mix well
    Add curd in
    Add in melted butter
    Mix well
    Grease a pan
    Pour the batter in
    Bake it
     
     
    Take sugar and water in a sauce pan
    Bring it to boil
    And simmer for 5 mins
    Remove that to a bowl and add in rosewater
     
     
    Cut the cake into slices
    pour syrup over it
    Let it soak for few mins
    Serve
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    Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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    1. Hamaree Rasoi

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      So delicioious and mouthwatering cake! Wonderfully prepard.
      Deepa

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    2. Cocco

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      Sounds Yummy, I will try!

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    3. Priya Suresh

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      Very flavourful and my favourite basbousa.

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    4. Anonymous

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      Do mention the temperature for oven setting. I baked mine at 180 degrees centigrade and it turned fine.

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    5. Anonymous

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      Is the Dabur-gulabari safe for human consumption????

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    6. Aarthi

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      @AnonymousYes i think so, always use that

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    7. nazia asad

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      What is curd? Do you mean yogurt or is it something else? Thanks

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    8. Aarthi

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      @nazia asadyes it is yogurt

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    9. Dan Daniels

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      This will be just a suggestion for you... So many people have milk & gluten allergies, me being one of them. I also have type 2 diabetes. So, I will suggest a few items for you to try if you want to. Sugar and honey are a no-no for diabetics. There is a no glycemic sugar called Monk Sweetener. Perfect for diabetics.
      There are many milk substitutes. And finally, Bob's Red Mill has gluten-free flour as well as many other products.
      You have a very useful website and I'm sure many people use it. Best to you.

      Reply
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