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 ...
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ReplyDeleteI made this and came out soo good. Th bread was so soft and fluffy. The filling was yummy too. I used some cracked pepper and ground coriander as seasoning.
Can you please make video on how to make breudher. I loved eating breudher during Christmas season, back in Sri Lanka
Hi Amindri, Thanks for the request. I am going to do it today for you and post before christmas. keep in touch. :)
DeleteThank you soo much. Waiting for the video. Today I made a pasta with this same mushroom/chicken filling and still it was really yummy.. Just thought I should tell you :)
DeleteHi Amindri, I did it. Yummy. Will post soon.
DeleteThanks a lot Menaka :)
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