SteemFoods Contest -6- | Promote A Traditional Food | Pani Walalu

Pani walalu is a type of sweet made in special occasions. Most of the time it is made for the New Year festival. New Year festival in Sri Lanka is a festival we celebrated in April. It is also called Sinhala and Tamil New Year. Nowadays we can find them in stores selling pani walalu all over the year. This recipe is so famous with upcountry people as they won’t miss this in their sweet tables in festivals.

Ingredients:

250g Undu seeds or Undu flour
125g Rice flour
30g all purpose flour
1 cup Coconut milk
¼tsp baking soda (or 1 cup of Coconut water)
Pinch of salt
Sugar
water

I had to soak undu seeds for few hours. It is recommended to soak it around 6-8 hours or overnight. I soaked it around 2-3 hours and directly added them into the blender with little bit of water. If we are using coconut water for the recipe, this is the time to add it instead of that little bit of water. We shouldn’t add all the coconut water at once because this batter is a little bit thick one. Coconut water also has the ability of risen up the mixture but it takes more time than baking soda.

After blending it should be come out as a smooth batter without any small pieces of undu.

After that I have added shifted rice flour and all purpose flour into the mixture. Because I haven’t used coconut water, I added the baking soda and then the salt. Then I added coconut milk little by little while mixing the batter.

This batter shouldn’t be so thick or much liquid type. It should be in between. I kept it covered until it rises. It took about 40minutes because, I used baking soda and because of our warm climate. If I have used coconut water, I will keep it about 6 hours to rise.

After it rises, I got the mixture and mixed it again. The batter didn’t have the requested consistency. So I added little amount of coconut milk again. My batter looks in this color because I used red rice flour for it.

Then I poured the batter into a piping bag and with the help of it poured the batter into oil. While frying this flame should keep low. otherwise this will be burnt.

Got the fried pani walalu out of the oil when it turn out golden brown and dip it in the sugar syrup. I made sugar syrup before starting the frying of batter using brown sugar and water. A little secret I learnt recently 😉, add few drops of lime or lemon so syrup will not get harden while it cools.

Here is my final result... There were few cousins at our place today.. my mother prepared tea for everyone, served with pani walalu.

We can find this sweet at any sweetshop or dessert shop and buy them paying LKR 30- LKR 40 per one. I bought the most delicisious pani walalu I have tasted from "Hela Bojun Hala ", Kandy.

If you visit kandy be sure to try it!