Semolina Bread- Quick Version for Ramadan

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This is a very fast and easy bread, ideal for Ramadan. It tastes like a cross between a yeast leavened semolina bread and a cornbread. This is a master recipe of sorts for a range of sweet semolina cakes or savory breads.

1 cup semolina flour
1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk

½ cup water (or more as needed)
1 large egg
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, cooled slightly

Preheat oven to 400°F. 

Sift flours, sugar, baking powder, and salt into medium bowl. Whisk buttermilk and egg in another medium bowl; whisk in melted butter. Add buttermilk mixture to dry ingredients; stir just until incorporated (do not overmix)

Bake for 20-30 minutes or until golden

Serve with honey butter.

EDITED TO ADD: I used fine semolina flour. Throughout this blog when I simply write "semolina flour" I am referring to fine semolina flour. When a recipe needs coarse semolina than I specify "coarse semolina".

Comments

[Alexis]

These things look gorgeous and I am sure are delicious. I'm bookmarking these to try this weekend.

[Thanaporn Boonloh B.B.A.]

We have been looking for an easy to make borderline sweet bread for the bakery part of Ma-Sa-Man Cooking School & Bakery in Bangkok.

We'll have to give this a try.

[fatima djelti]

i just made the Semolina Bread it was soooo ez to make, & it is soooo good. thank you.

[laura]

great recipe - thanks!

[judi]

have been searching for a recipe for harsha, have made it exactly as they do in households in Maroc, but never the same here! am about to try your recipe and hope it works. tks

[LallaLydia]

Well, I've made this bread twice now- the first time it came out nicely and my husband promptly declared that indeed, it was like "harsha" (a good thing...) and when my mother in law saw it through our webcam she recommended addding anise seeds...which I did the second time around and it's made a really delicate but lovely odor in the kitchen...now I'm waiting for the bread to cool for our dinner and want to thank you again for posting this simple and delicious recipe.

[LallaLydia]

Mmm, this looks delicious. Is this similar to Moroccan "harsha" bread? (At least, that's what I know it as in Moroccan darija...) Thank you for the recipe! How I love the limitless variety of North African breads!

[andrea]

I can only find the very fine semolina flour in my area...how do I modify the recipe so it will work?

[Buip]

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