Description
A traditional Goan sweet with a Baumkuchen-like cross-section, baking batter of egg yolks, coconut milk, sugar, wheat flour, and Ghee layer by layer in an oven.
Restaurants serving Bebinca
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Wheat flour
- Egg(yolks)
- Coconut milk
- Sugar
- Ghee
- Nutmeg
- Salt
Instructions
- Mix egg yolks and sugar until whitish, add coconut milk, wheat flour, nutmeg powder, salt to make smooth crepe-like batter.
- Generously Ghee a cake mold, pour
- ladle of batter, bake with oven top heat until surface browns.
- Brush Ghee on the baked layer, pour batter thinly, bake again. Patiently repeat 'pour batter -> bake -> brush Ghee' for 7-
- layers, cool, slice to finish.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
None
Pairing
Black coffee、Vanilla ice cream
Trivia
[Hardcore] Called 'Queen of Goan Sweets'. Legend says Portuguese nuns used egg whites to starch uniforms, devising this to consume massive leftover yolks. A supreme dessert essential for Christmas.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Serve cold vanilla ice cream beside warm Bebinca, eating while highlighting coconut and nutmeg aromas!
Allergen
Wheat, Egg, Dairy