New Year Recipes

Creamy, rich rice cooked in thick coconut milk until it sets firm, then cut into diamond shapes — a sacred Sri Lankan dish served on auspicious occasions and New Year celebrations.

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.

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.

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.

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.