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 ...
Thank you for all your recipes. I have tried a few so far and they have all worked beautifully! I was wondering if you were planning on doing a hopper recipe? I saw your wandu appa recipe and am planning on making it when my mother sends me some jaggary from home.
ReplyDeleteBut I was looking for a plain appa recipe and thought you may have one? Thank you :)
Yes. Already in my channel. That works well too. :)
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