Basbousa/Namoura

Throwback to: Basbousa/Namoura, a Middle Eastern cake-like sweet, soaked in syrup. This was based on the Coconut Basbousa (Semolina Cake) YouTube video of Mariam the Cook, and was my first successful basbousa/namoura. Before that, I'd made several versions from other recipes, and many of them could be compared to bricks.

Some of it was my error, not realizing that "semolina" in some cases meant semolina flour, vs the semolina/farina/sooji/rava used in India. Well, the happy ending is that with this version, I achieved my goal: a great basbousa/namoura, similar enough to the very first namoura I once had at an Arabic bakery.

Mariam the Cook YouTube, Coconut Basbousa