Hello everybody, it is Sophie, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pistachio and rose water semolina cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pistachio and Rose Water Semolina Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Pistachio and Rose Water Semolina Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
And don't confuse rose water and rose essence: the difference is huge. I adore semolina cakes and desserts; they were always around in one form or another as I was growing up in Singapore. And if you've been a long time follower of LinsFood, you'll know that I use rose (petals, water and syrup) and pistachios in all sorts of recipes, both sweet and savoury.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pistachio and rose water semolina cake using 36 ingredients and 27 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pistachio and Rose Water Semolina Cake:
- Prepare Candied Edible Flowers
- Make ready 1 large egg white
- Get 40 pesticide free flower petals
- Make ready 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- Take Cake Topping
- Take 1/4 cup pistachios
- Prepare 1/4 cup almonds
- Get 2 cardamom pods
- Make ready 3 tbsp cane sugar
- Take 1 tbsp salt
- Prepare 1 tbsp unsalted butter
- Make ready Cake
- Take 3 cardamom pods
- Get 1 cup shelled pistachio kernels
- Make ready 1 cup almonds
- Get 1 cup semolina
- Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 tsp baking soda
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 1/3 cups unsalted butter, room temp
- Prepare 1 2/3 cups cane sugar
- Prepare 4 large eggs, separated
- Get zest of 2 medium or 1 large lemon
- Take 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Prepare 2 tbsp rose water
- Take 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Take Rose Cream
- Get 2 cups heavy cream
- Take 1 cup home made creme fraiche (see separate recipe)
- Take 1 tbsp cane sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp rose water
- Take 1 cup pomegranate arils
- Make ready Rose Syrup
- Make ready 1/2 cup lemon juice
- Take 1/3 cup rose water
- Prepare 1/2 cup cane sugar
Place the butter and sugar in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat until pale and. Basbousa (Traditional Coconut "Semolina" Cake)Middle East Healthy Eats. pistachios, vanilla, almond meal, coconut, maple syrup. In both cities, the baking section had extracts like elderflower and rose water more readily available (in addition to some more unusual ones like sea buckthorn berries). It was with this in mind that my rhubarb geometry found itself under a pistachio, rose water, and semolina cake.
Steps to make Pistachio and Rose Water Semolina Cake:
- Candied Rose Petals - Preheat oven to 200º
- Laquer egg white on petal, sprinkle sugar on each side, place on baking sheet lined with silpat. Bake for 30 mins. Remove to cooling rack.
- Cake Topping
- In food processor, combine almonds and 1 tbsp sugar until fine. Reserve.
- Roughly chop pistachios.
- In small saucepan add butter over medium heat. When melted, add pistachios until coated.
- In a small mixing bowl, add 2 tbsp sugar and 1 tbsp salt with 1 ramekin cardamom. Whisk together.
- Toss pistachios until coated. In a fine sieve, gently shake and reserve.
- Cake - Increase oven to 350º
- Grease a 9 inch pan and line with parchment paper.
- Pick through pistachios for any off color nuts. Roast all pistachios for 6 minutes. Set aside to cool.
- Roast almonds for 7-8 minutes, set aside to cool.
- Crack cardamom pods, 3 at a time, grind and reserve separately. (If you're obsessive/compulsive, you can cover the ramekin with plastic wrap so no flavor is lost.)
- In food processor, grind 1 cup pistachios with 1 tbsp sugar until coarse, not fine. Repeat for 1 cup almonds.
- Rub lemon peel with 1 tbsp sugar until fine.
- Add pistachios, almonds, one ramekin cardamom, semolina, baking powder, and salt. Whisk until mixed and reserve.
- Place butter and remaining sugar in bowl of an electric mixer with paddle. Beat on medium-high speed until combined.
- Reduce speed to low. Add egg yolks one at a time, scraping the side of the bowl as necessary. Add rose water, lemon juice, and vanilla extract until just combined.
- Pour mixture into a large mixing bowl.
- Clean electric mixing bowl, whip egg whites until stiff peaks form.
- Add dry ingredients to wet, fold together. Add 1/4 of egg white, mix with spatula until combined. Add 1/4 more egg white, folding. Add remaining 1/2 egg white, folding in more gently this time.
- Add batter to pan, level with small offset spatula.Bake for 55-60 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.
- Rose Syrup
- You want the syrup to be warm when the cake comes out of the oven, so 10 minutes before the cake is ready, combine ingredients in a sauce pan, bring to a boil, stir so the sugar dissolves, and set aside.
- As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, pour evenly over the top. Sprinkle with almond mixture and pistachios. Set on cooling rack to room temperature. Remove from pan. Add flowers. Serve with rose cream and pomegranate arils.
- Rose cream
- Whip heavy cream until stiff, adding sugar and rose water halfway through. Remove and fold in creme fraiche. Refrigerate until needed.
In his stunning new baking and desserts cookbook Yotam Ottolenghi and his long-time collaborator Helen Goh bring the Ottolenghi hallmarks of fresh. Since pistachios, cardamom, and rose water are ingredients commonly used in the Mediterranean cuisine, this cake couldn't be missing from this blog! Candied rose petals make for a gorgeous presentation, but the chefs say you can buy dried rose petals (available at Asian or Middle Eastern grocers) or omit them altogether. If you are using rose petals, make sure they haven't been sprayed with pesticides. I already shared a recipe for pistachio rose water cupcakes in the past, but felt inspired to create something new just for the blog and something refined sugar-free too, while I'm at it.
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