Coconut Basbousa Recipe

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.

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 mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 5 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine egypt

Servings 16 pieces

Calories 111 kcal

Ingredients

  

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

Nutrition Facts

Coconut Basbousa Recipe | Eggless Coconut Basbousa Recipe

Serving Size

 

1 servings

Amount per Serving

Calories

111

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

3

g

5

%

Saturated Fat

 

2

g

13

%

Polyunsaturated Fat

 

0.1

g

Monounsaturated Fat

 

0.3

g

Cholesterol

 

3

mg

1

%

Sodium

 

111

mg

5

%

Potassium

 

59

mg

2

%

Carbohydrates

 

22

g

7

%

Fiber

 

1

g

4

%

Sugar

 

17

g

19

%

Protein

 

1

g

2

%

Vitamin A

 

23

IU

0

%

Vitamin C

 

0.3

mg

0

%

Calcium

 

45

mg

5

%

Iron

 

0.2

mg

1

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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