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Semolina cake/ Harisseh/ Nammurah

A healthy middle eastern cake known by names Harisseh or Nammurah

Ingredients

4 cups Sooji (semolina)

1 cup Canola oil/Ghee(clarified butter)

1 cup Sugar

¼ tsp Baking soda

1 cup 2% yogurt

1 cup 2% milk

3 cups Attar (Sugar syrup/see below to make)

¼ cup Almonds

Dash of salt.

2 tbsp.Tahini (optional)

How to make Attar

3 cups Sugar

1 cup water

1tsp Lemon juice

1 tsp orange Blossom water

Mix sugar,water and boil on medium heat until sugar gets dissolved completely.Then add lemon juice and orange blossom water.

A sweet made with rice flour,cream of wheat, banana and molasses/jaggery, fried in appakkara (unniappam chatti) just for this purpose.

Ingredients

Rice flour – 1 Cup

Sooji /rava /semolina -1 cup

Grated Coconut – 1/2 cup

Molasis (jaggery) syrup -1 cup

Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp

Banana (Palayankodan) – 1 cup chopped

Coconut oil/cooking oil/ghee as required

Coconut pieces (optional) fried in ghee- 1/4 cup

Dried ginger – a pinch

Cumin – a pinch

Baking soda- a pinch