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Basbousa

Basbousa: what it is and where to eat it

A traditional sweet cake made from semolina and soaked in syrup.

5 restaurants on Tastavo serve it

Cuisine
Arabic

Typical ingredients

  • semolina
  • sugar syrup
  • yogurt
  • butter
  • nuts

History of the dish

Egypt

basbousa
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Origin
Egypt
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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.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Basbousa” · version used · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sources: Wikidata (CC0) · Wikipedia

Where to eat it

Rome

Innsbruck

Geneva

Porto

Warsaw

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