LENTEN SAMALI

Wonderful, tasty and very fragrant Lenten Samali. With an orange aroma and flavor!
Very simple and easy to make, and the ingredients  don’t cost much.
It’s worth a try!!!

INGREDIENTS:
  1/2 kg thick semolina 
  1/2 kg thin semolina
  1 tsp mastic powder
  2 sachets of baking powder
  zest of 1 orange
  1 water glass of fresh orange juice
  2 glasses water
  1/2 kg sugar

INGREDIENTS FOR THE SYRUP:
  1kg sugar
  4 glasses water
  1 vanilla

PREPARATION:
In a big bowl add all the solid ingredients and mix together well.

lowly add the juice, the water

and mix together well until you have a thick porridge.

Pour the mixture in a non-stick 36x26 baking pan and bake for an hour at 150C until golden.

While the samali bakes prepare the syrup by boiling the ingredients for 4 minutes, then leave it aside to cool.

Once you remove the samali from the oven, cut it with caution in pieces

and slowly syrup it with a spoon until in absorbs all the syrup.

It’s better if you don’t remove a piece and let it syrup well over night. A long as it stays in the syrup the better it tastes.

GOOD LUCK!!!