These sound really delicious! I have eaten something similar from uppa’s Kasargod colleague, but they make the coconut in jaggery and dip in batter… I don’t know what it is called but this surely reminds me of it!
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Naran Kavum- A Srilankan dessert
Cuisine:
Ingredients
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1 cup Fresh coconut
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3/4 cup Sugar
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1/4 tsp Cardamom powder
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3/4 cup Rice flour
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a pinch Salt
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1/3-1/2 cup Water
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For deep frying Oil
Directions
The picture that comes to my mind when I think about Srilanka are the beautiful locales. Be it the hill station Nuwara Illiya or the beaches at Galle and Bentota. They are beautiful and every traveler would want to visit this country often just like me. Recently I had the opportunity to visit this country again with Balaji who organizes tours and I often travel with his organised tours. On this Srilankan tour we had the opportunity to taste the local food. While we tasted the array of vegetarian dishes, we seemed to like the dessert which was Naran kavum.
Naran Kavum
Naran Kavum is a sweet dish which mainly had coconut, sugar and rice flour as ingredients. It very much resembles our sukiyan in appearance and taste. We generally use jaggery as the sweetener in sukhiyan but lankan use sugar for sweetening. The procedure is nearly the same. Will be documenting my other food experience and of course about beautiful Srilanka shortly in my travel blog
The theme for this week of Blogging marathon is to pick an alphabet and cook from three countries whose name starts with that alphabet and I chose to cook with the alphabet S. So Srilanka is the first country. Do come back to see the other cuisine for the next two days
Steps
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Combine coconut and sugar and cook on low flame in a pan. First the sugar will melt and become watery. On cooking further it was come together as a single mass. Switch off the fire at this stage and let it cool completely. |
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Make small equal sized balls from this and keep it aside |
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Now mix rice flour, salt and just enough water to make it into a thick batter to coat the coconut balls. |
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Heat oil in a pan and when sufficiently hot, dip each coconut ball into this rice flour batter, see it it that it coats evenly all over, and slowly deep fry it till done. Flip it over and cook on the over on the other side. When completely fried, take it out with a slotted spoon and let the oil drain completely. Sere warm |
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Sounds like a delicious dessert Veena. I have eaten something similar but the filling was like our ‘pooranam’ – coconut and jaggery. Waiting for the other recipes from Srilanka.
Wow! You visited Srilanka? Now I am looking forward to your post. This sweet looks awesome Veena. Coconut is one of my fav ingredients to work with. The deep frying takes it to another level..
Hmm yumm sounds just like our suzhiyam!! Can imagine the taste of these deep fried delight!!Looking forward to ur travel post Veena!
Wow Lovely combination of coconut in a deep fried treat. Looking forward to reading about your Srilankan trip.
That is such a delicious and easy to make Sri Lankan dessert. I’ve never been to Sri Lanka, but would love to visit sometime 🙂
May be the younger sister of Suzhiyan, how delicious its looks na.. Srilanka is in my country to visit list, wish i could visit this beautiful island very soon. Btw Naran kavum sounds like a dangerously addictive dessert.
I can’t wait to hear about all your travel experiences to Sri Lanka. Such a beautiful place to visit. This dessert looks so addictive and I love desserts similar to suhiyan.
First of all – wow – Sri Lanka is on a list of one of the places I would like to visit. Must be so beautiful and this dessert looks super delicious!
I can imagine how delicious these naran kavum must be. Sukhiyan is one of my favorite south Indian sweet dishes and I am bookmarking this to try later.
Sometimes I feel envious Veena. The way you are exploring different places…. Wish I could do the same too! This Srilankan sweet sounds yum.
Oh good to know you are done with your tour. Do share your stories, will be lovely to read about them. This dessert sounds so sinful, great share Veena.
Wow this is a very new recipe to me and it really looks yum and delicious.
These sound really delicious! I have eaten something similar from uppa’s Kasargod colleague, but they make the coconut in jaggery and dip in batter… I don’t know what it is called but this surely reminds me of it!
Sounds like a delicious dessert Veena. I have eaten something similar but the filling was like our ‘pooranam’ – coconut and jaggery. Waiting for the other recipes from Srilanka.
Wow! You visited Srilanka? Now I am looking forward to your post. This sweet looks awesome Veena. Coconut is one of my fav ingredients to work with. The deep frying takes it to another level..
Hmm yumm sounds just like our suzhiyam!! Can imagine the taste of these deep fried delight!!Looking forward to ur travel post Veena!
Wow Lovely combination of coconut in a deep fried treat. Looking forward to reading about your Srilankan trip.
That is such a delicious and easy to make Sri Lankan dessert. I’ve never been to Sri Lanka, but would love to visit sometime 🙂
May be the younger sister of Suzhiyan, how delicious its looks na.. Srilanka is in my country to visit list, wish i could visit this beautiful island very soon. Btw Naran kavum sounds like a dangerously addictive dessert.
I can’t wait to hear about all your travel experiences to Sri Lanka. Such a beautiful place to visit. This dessert looks so addictive and I love desserts similar to suhiyan.
First of all – wow – Sri Lanka is on a list of one of the places I would like to visit. Must be so beautiful and this dessert looks super delicious!
I can imagine how delicious these naran kavum must be. Sukhiyan is one of my favorite south Indian sweet dishes and I am bookmarking this to try later.
Sometimes I feel envious Veena. The way you are exploring different places…. Wish I could do the same too! This Srilankan sweet sounds yum.
Oh good to know you are done with your tour. Do share your stories, will be lovely to read about them. This dessert sounds so sinful, great share Veena.
Wow this is a very new recipe to me and it really looks yum and delicious.