Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:

1. Make ready 1 kg semolina
2. Make ready 1 cup sugar
3. Make ready 1 cup milk
4. Get 1 cup vegetable oil
5. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon mastic gum, crushed in ½ teaspoon sugar
6. Prepare 4 teaspoons baking powder
7. Get 3 teaspoons orange blossom water
8. Take 3 teaspoons rose water
9. Prepare 1 teaspoon tahini, sesame paste
10. Take - For the sugar syrup:
11. Prepare 2 1/2 cups sugar
12. Get 1 1/2 cups water
13. Make ready 1 teaspoon rose water
14. Prepare 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
15. Get 1 teaspoon lemon juice
16. Make ready - For garnishing:
17. Take 25 almonds, cut in halves

The nammoura will keep up to a week in an air-tight container. Dense cake/bars with Middle Eastern flavors like rose water and orange blossom water. Good for every occasion, great after a meal, or with tea or coffee. Make the syrup while the cakes are baking.

Steps to make Semolina cake in sugar syrup - nammoura:

1. 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.
2. For the batter, mix all the ingredients together, except the tahini.
3. 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.
4. Preheat the oven to medium heat. Put the tray in the oven on the middle rack and bake for around 30 min.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Take out the cake and place an almond in the middle of each lozenge piece. Serve at room temperature.

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