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Like in most countries, the common dishes are prepared in villages; to acquire specific Sri Lankan Recipes will be very difficult. They don't create recipes with the aid of a cookbook. Everything is by working through taste and adjustment of seasonings. This is how Sinhalese women prepare their dishes, and there are no women who cook similarly. Every women uses a different ingredient to prepare a Sri Lankan Recipes, therefore how they interpret a dish is entirely special. When Sinhalese women told you of a specific measurement of a seasoning or any ingredient, she will demonstrate it to you with her hand gestures. When you want to prepare a Sri Lankan Recipes, you better take a look on how the women in the country cook their meal and you must make a trial and error method of cooking the food. Once you achieve a perfect meal you should write it down so you can remember how it is created.

Sri lankan Aluwa Recipes

 

Ingredients   
10 cups of rice flour (from soaked 4-5 cups of white raw rice)
2 cups of Sugar
3 cups of water
3-4 cardamoms
Hand full of cashew nuts

Method :

Roast the rice flour under medium heat. It is better to grind the rice yourself. If you use the processed rice flour aluwa will get sticky and have a different taste. 

Keep little amount of roasted flour for dusting and coating.

Boil the sugar and water in non-stick pan until form a thick line and take out from the heat.

While continuously stirring add ground cardamom seeds and chopped cashew nuts. This time will allow the syrup to little cool and help to keep aluwa in good white colour.

Then add the roasted flour and mix in well. 

Quickly spread on a tray lined with waxed paper and try to keep it at 1 cm thickness. 

Cut in to pieces promptly. After few minutes separate from the tray and coat with remaining flour. 

This measurement enough for 25-30 aluwa pieces. 
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