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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
Origin Region
Egypt 2
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Uses Ingredient

Semolina, Ingredients
Source Basbousa (Wikipedia)
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Egypt, originated there.
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1. Basbousa (Wikipedia)
  • entity description (course)
    Basbousa is a sweet, syrup-soaked semolina dessert popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus and the Balkans.
  • Uses Ingredient: Semolina, Infobox main_ingredient field: [[Semolina]] or [[Farina (food)|farina]], [[syrup]]
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2. Basbousa (Wikidata)
P495 (country of origin): Egypt
Quote, P495 (country of origin): Egypt
Egypt
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