Aluwa Recipe

Aluwa is another delicious Avurudhu sweet that gets more attention in New Year table. Aluwa is a traditional Sri Lankan sweet that made with rice flour. Follow these steps correctly and decorate your Avurudhu table with this tasty sweet.

Ingredients

• Rice Flour - 500g
• Sugar - 300g
• Milk
• Cashew / Peanuts
• Ground Cardamom
• Water - 01 cup
• Salt as per taste

Method

• For Aluwa it is better to make rice flour at home. We showed how to make rice flour at home when making Kokis. Click here to view that video.
• Roast the rice flour under medium heat until it becomes like tiny sand.
• Sift flour.
• Grind cardamom and chop cashew into small pieces.
• Boil the sugar and water. Add salt and mix.
• Let this sugar melt under medium heat. It takes around 10-12mins for this to come to a proper level.
• Get small amount from this syrup to a spoon and pour it down. If it is pouring down like a thick line this sugar syrup is ready.
• Switch off the flame and get half a cup of this syrup and keep it aside. This can be used later when adding flour.
• Add cardamom and cashew to the remaining syrup and mix.
• Add milk and mix.
• Add rice flour little by little to the syrup and mix well. Here don’t add all rice flour at once and reserve some flour for the coating.
• After adding flour if this is too much harden, add more syrup and mix. The reserved syrup can be used for this.
• When this becomes a soft dough, spread this on a prepared board/tray.
• Level the dough by spreading rice flour on it.
• Then cut this into desired shapes.
• When storing this, apply little bit of rice flour on the bottom side of Aluwa. Then it won’t stick to each other.
• Let this cool down and serve.
• Keep in mind to follow above steps quickly since this dough gets harden very quickly.