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Niki’s Nammoura Recipe (Semolina cake)

Easy to make semolina cake fragranced with orange blossom water.

Dairy Free
Gluten Free
Vegan
Niki’s Nammoura Recipe (Semolina cake)
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Ingredients

For the Orange Blossom Syrup
  • 150g cane sugar
  • 120ml water
  • 1/2 a lemon, juiced
  • 1 tsp Steenbergs orange blossom water
For the Nammoura
  • 500g semolina
  • 150g coconut oil, plus extra for greasing
  • 50g almond flour
  • 120ml almond (or any other kind) milk
  • 100ml honey
  • 200g raw cane sugar
  • 24-30 raw whole almonds, for garnish
  • A small scattering dried rose petals and fresh mint, for garnish

“Nammoura is a traditional dessert made from semolina. It’s a relatively simple dessert with only a few ingredients, but it’s soaked in syrup fragranced with orange blossom water which gives it such complexity! ” Nikibakes_uk

Method

01
Preheat your oven to 210°C and grease a large baking sheet with coconut oil, line with greaseproof paper and set aside.
02
Place your sugar, water, and lemon in a small saucepan on the stove over high heat. Bring to a boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat, add the orange blossom water, and cool to room temperature, set aside.
03
Next up, place up your semolina and almond flour in a large bowl and mix. Now add your melted coconut oil and mix again.
04
In the same saucepan you prepared your syrup in add your milk, sugar, and honey. Over A medium-low heat, bring the temperature of the mixture up until the sugar and honey is completely combined (you should not see or feel the sugar granules). Remove from heat and pour over your semolina mixture.
05
Using a spatula, gently combine the liquid with the semolina – being careful not to over-mix. Pour the mixture into your greased baking tin and gently shake from side to side so that the batter reaches the edges.
06
Bake your nammoura for 20-24 minutes. Once golden and bouncy to the touch, bring out your cake and allow to cool a little before scoring and slicing up, leaving the cake in the pan.
07
Pour your orange blossom syrup over the nammoura up to the top of the baking pan. It will bubble and will look it is too much – but the nammoura will soak it all up.
08
Allow the nammoura to cool and soak up the syrup for a full 30 minutes, then using a knife slice in the scored channels to cut out the desired shape and garnish as desired. Enjoy!