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Basbousa

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Basbousa is a sweet, syrup-soaked semolina dessert popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus and the Balkans. Its semolina batter is baked in a sheet pan, then sweetened with sugar syrup and typically cut into diamond or square shapes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
Course
Dessert 1
Dietary Suitability
Vegetarian 2
Dietary Suitability
Contains Dairy or Egg 2
Origin Region
Egypt 2
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Prepared By Technique

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Uses Ingredient

Semolina, Ingredients
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1. Basbousa (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    Basbousa (Arabic: بسبوسة, romanized: basbūsah, also known as harisa, nammoura, or revani) is a sweet, syrup-soaked semolina dessert popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and the Balkans.
  • Uses Ingredient: Semolina, Infobox main_ingredient field: Semolina or farina, syrup
  • In Cuisine: Middle Eastern Cuisine, Lead
    popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and the Balkans
  • In Cuisine: North African Cuisine, Lead
    popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and the Balkans
  • Prepared By Technique: Baking, Lead sentence
    The semolina batter is baked in a sheet pan, then sweetened with sugar syrup and typically cut
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2. Basbousa (Wikidata)
P495 (country of origin): Egypt
Quote, P495 (country of origin): Egypt
Egypt
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