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Undu Walalu/Undu Wal or Pani Walalu Urad bean flour and kithul treacle Tasty crispy tubes filled with Kithul treacle. Looks like earthworm but a world class sweet, unique to Sri Lanka. Weli Thalapa Rice flour, scraped coconut, Kitul or coconut treacle, spices Household sweet, usually served at tea time.
The Tamil language is spoken by native Sri Lankan Tamils and is also spoken by Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka and by most Sri Lankan Moors. Tamil speakers number around 4.8 million (29% of the population), making it the second largest language in Sri Lanka. There are more than 40,000 speakers of the Sri Lankan Malay language.
Sinhala and Tamil are the official languages of Sri Lanka, with English as the link language. Tamil is a South-Dravidian language, and Sinhala belongs to the Insular Indic family (along with Dhivehi of the Maldives). Vedda is said to be the indigenous language of Sri Lanka before the arrival of the Indo-Aryans and Dravidians.
Cinnamon/cardamom and sweet cumin is often added among the Christian population of Sri Lanka. Seenakku - a glutinous rice cake often served with grated coconut. [15] Treacle-flavored sweets: Undu Walalu/Undu wal or Pani walalu - A sweet from the Mathale area, prepared using urad bean flour and kithul treacle. Aggala - Rice balls flavored with ...
Pol Pani is a Sri Lankan food filling made with coconut scrap. They are used to make various types of Sri Lankan sweets as Pancakes , Laveriya and Halapa. [ 1 ]
Borhani, (Bengali: বোরহানী) is a traditional yogurt-like [91] drink [92] Borhani is made from sour doi, green chilli, mustard seeds, black salt, coriander and mint. [93] It is popular as a digestive after heavy meals [ 94 ] or as an appetizer beforehand.
Aluwa (Sinhala: අළුවා) is a Sri Lankan sweet. It is made from roasted rice flour or potatoes with boiled treacle , cashew nuts and cardamom and is served in a flat cookie-like form. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Aluwa is traditionally served in diamond or square shapes by using a wooden mould.
Papadam can be prepared from different ingredients and methods. One popular recipe uses flour ground from hulled split black gram [9] mixed with black pepper, salt, a small amount of vegetable oil and a food-grade alkali, and the mixture is kneaded. A well-kneaded dough is then flattened into very thin rounds and then dried and stored for later ...