Ravani with yogurt from Veria

 

Ingredients

• Makes 20 slices:
• 1/2 cup coarse semolina
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 2 cups yogurt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup melted butter
• 6 eggs
• peel of 1 lemon
• 1/2 cup powdered almonds
• 20 whole almonds, unsalted
• For the syrup:
• 3 cups sugar
• 3 cups water
• juice of 1/2 lemon

Directions

1. 1. In a bowl, mix half the sugar with the semolina. In a separate bowl, add the yogurt, baking soda and lemon peel, then add to the semolina mixture. Leave to rest for 1 hour. 
      
   2. In a mixer, beat the butter with the rest of the sugar and egg yolks until frothy and smooth. Beat the egg whites into a meringue. 
      
   3. Add the yolk mixture and the powdered almonds to the yogurt mixture and combine. finally add the meringue, mixing carefully. 
      
   4. empty the mixture into a greased baking tin and bake in a preheated oven at 200C for 30 minutes. 
      
   5. For the syrup: boil the water, sugar, and lemon juice for 5 minutes. 
      
   6. Leave the cake to cool a little, then pout the warm syrup over it. Place back into the oven and bake for a further 10 minutes until the top has caramelized. Remove from the oven and let it basorb all of the syrup. cut into slices, placing a whole almond at the centre of each slice. 
      
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