Festive Recipes

A rich, crumbly, and buttery sweetmeat made from roasted semolina (rulan), milk, and sugar, studded with cashew nuts and cut into diamonds.

Bite-sized, deep-fried sweets containing a sweet, spiced coconut and jaggery center (pani pol) encased in a crispy rice flour batter.

The undisputed king of Sri Lankan sweets: a deep-fried, sponge-like cake made of rice flour and treacle, famous for its distinct 'top knot' (konda).

Coils of deep-fried urad dal batter completely saturated in sweet, sticky kithul treacle. Sri Lanka's answer to the jalebi, but darker and richer.

Diamond-shaped sweets made from roasted mung bean flour and rice flour mixed with kithul treacle, coated in a light batter and deep-fried.

An intricate, delicate, deep-fried web of rice flour dough, elegantly drizzled with bright pink or brown sugary treacle.

A traditional, diamond-shaped sweetmeat made from roasted rice flour, kithul treacle, and chopped cashew nuts, coated in powdered sugar.

Crunchy, savory, deep-fried rice and urad dal spirals spiced with cumin and sesame seeds. A classic festive snack.

A rich, creamy, fudge-like Sri Lankan sweet made from condensed milk, sugar, butter, and cashew nuts — a beloved homemade confection prepared for the New Year and given as gifts.

Sweet, fudgy, melt-in-the-mouth Sri Lankan milk toffee squares made from rice flour, sugar, milk, and cardamom — a simple but utterly addictive traditional New Year confection.

Beautiful, paper-thin, crispy deep-fried rice flour cookies made using a special flower-shaped iron mold — a beloved Sri Lankan New Year treat of Dutch Burgher origin.

A traditional Sri Lankan deep-fried sweet cake made from rice flour, jaggery, and coconut milk — a festive delicacy prepared during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebrations.