Kalon prama or Samali from Cyprus

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kalon prama or Samali is a semolina cake very popular in Cyprus, kalon prama means 'good thing' , so you can imagine how delicious this dessert is. It is made with wheat semolina, almonds and syrup, very easy to do.

Ingredients:

- 250 grams yoghurt.

- 150 grams sugar.

- 1/2 ground orange rind.

- 2 eggs.

- 100 grams butter.

- 350 grams semolina.

- 1 teaspoon baking soda.

- 2 teaspoon baking soda.

- 1/2 teaspoon mastika or anise.

- Almonds.

Ingredients for the Syrup:

- 400 grams sugar.

- 400 ml water.

- 1 cinnamon stick.

- 2 tablespoon lemon juice.

Method:

1- Mix semolina with sugar, baking soda, baking powder, ground orange rind, butter, yoghurt , eggs and anise or mastika.

Mastika is a tree resin or the liqueur made from that resin. It tastes like anise so you can use anise in case you don't find Mastika.

I made the cake with the liqueur of Mastika:

I found it in Madrid at this store where you can find other Bulgarian products: http://www.tiendabulgaraenmadrid.es

Mini mercado 4M Ezequiel Solana 78, Madrid

Mix well:

2- Mix until you have an homogeneous dough.

3- Put in an ovenproof recipient, make squares along the dough with the help of a knife, put an almond on top of every square.

4- Preheat oven at 170 º C cook for 30 minutes at the same temperature.

5- While the cake is cooking , lets make the syrup. Put in a casserole sugar, water, cinnamon stick and lemon. Put on a low heat and cook until all the sugar has been disolved. Then let it cool.

6- Once the cake is cooked, redo the squares on the cake, and pour litle by litle all the syrup over the cake.

7- You can consume it hot or cold, as you want. It is delicious!