Greece

Revani

Name: Revani
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups fine semolina rava (semolina); 3/4 cup maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 200 g for cake 300 g for syrup sugar; 5 egg; 3/4 cup curd (plain yogurt, natural yoghurt); 1/2 cup cooking oil (vegetable oil); 2 tsp baking powder; Orange, zest and juice of 1; Lemon, peel of 1, for syrup; 1 1/2 cups for syrup water; Almonds, flaked, to decorate

Semolina cake soaked in orange syrup. Rava cake meets a Greek grandmother's kitchen.

70 minTime

7 gProtein each

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Semolina and syrup1 chapter · 1 min read

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Grandma's waySemolina sponge soaked in citrus syrup.

The original

412kcalsame

7 gproteinsame

1 gfibresame

70minutessame

Revani.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Rava (semolina)1¼ cups fine semolina

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)¾ cup

Sugar200 g for cake, 300 g for syrup

Egg5

Curd (plain yogurt, natural yoghurt)¾ cup

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)½ cup

Baking powder2 tsp

Orangezest and juice of 1

Lemonpeel of 1, for syrup

Water1½ cups, for syrup

Almondsflaked, to decorate

Method

5 steps

1Boil the syrup: 300 g sugar, water, lemon peel and some orange juice for 5 minutes. Cool.
2Whisk eggs and sugar until pale, then the curd, oil and zest.
3Fold in rava, flour and baking powder. Rest 10 minutes.
4Pour into a lined tin, scatter almonds and bake at 180 C until golden and springy.
5Cut into diamonds and pour over the cool syrup while the cake is warm. Rest an hour.

Serve it like this

Cut into diamonds and serve at room temperature with a flaked almond on each, alongside coffee or tea.

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