Sri Lankan Oil Cakes (Konda Kav um)     Oil cake is a very authentic and a traditional sweet that made out  of rice flour , treacle, and coconut oil. After mixing the ingredients leaving the dough to rest makes this sweet forms the konde or like a knot done to womens hair. The person has to  be little skillfull to make them. I was trained from my child hood by my grand mother. After making oil cakes she gives me the last bit to try. That gave me the ability to make them nicer. You need to be patient  when cooking them, as well as it takes time and have to cook them on low flame. Traditionally they use husks and leaves of coconut tree to cook them,as the flame is not very stronger. If you make them bigger you need to cook them longer, if not the middle of the Kavum can be raw.   People use to put the cooked Kavum in big pots of treacle and tie around the pot tightly and hang them in a corner of the kitchen. After several months after the new year they took them out to ...
 
Your recipe appears to be excellent. Thank you for providing detailed instructions for the recipe. In comparison to other recipes, I always prefer the Chicken Massaman Curry recipe. For the first time, I attempted to make Watcharee's Thai chicken massaman curry recipe and it turned out fantastically. Then I started doing it on a regular basis. Your recipe appeals to me as well and I plan to try it.
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