Ingredients

• Semolina - 1.5 cups
• Yogurt - 2 small cups (similar to ice cream cup)
• Ghee - 3 tbsp
• Desiccated dry coconut - 1 cup
• Salt - little
• Sugar - 1 cup + 1 and half cup
• Almonds - to decorate
• Baking powder - 3/4 tsp

How to Make Basbousa (Semolina Cake) with Yogurt

• Make sugar syrup out of 1 and half cup sugar and 1/2 cup water keeping in low flame.
• In another bowl Mix semolina, desiccated dry coconut, salt, sugar, baking powder, ghee in the quantity mentioned above. Then add yogurt and make a smooth paste.
• Grease the baking dish with ghee and lay out the mixture in the dish and cut in square shapes.
• Decorate each square with almonds before baking in the oven.
• Bake in very low flame from down, then once done (insert a knife to check if it is cooked once it comes out clean it means it has been cooked properly) cook on flame from top until the top turns golden brown.
• Add few drops of lemon juice into the sugar syrup prepared earlier before pouring it into the baked Basbousa.