Mun Keum
Mun Keum is a sweet that is belonged to Sri Lanka. It is a deep-fried sweet. It is made from green gram flour and sugar syrup/honey. It is also known as oil cake.
Mun keum is served in many festivals. It is a special and compulsory sweet that served in Sinhala and Tamil New Year. It is also served for Sri Lankan wedding, almsgiving. These keum is mostly diamond shaped and yellow.
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Mun Keum Recipe
INGREDIENTS
- 500 g Green gram flour
- 1 kg Rice flour
- 1 cup Coconut milk
- 2 bottles Coconut oil
- 1/2 tsp Saffron powder
- 750 g Sugar
- Salt
- Wheat flour For covering
INSTRUCTIONS
- If there is no green gram or rice flour, take 500g of green grams & 500g of rice and then fry them separately and make flour.
- If there is no honey take sugar 750g. Then add about a pinch of water and make a sugar syrup.
- If there is honey, put it into a pan and put the pan on the stove.
- Once the sugar syrup or honey reaches the threading point, remove it from the stove.
- Add all the green gram flour to the sugar syrup or honey and mix well.
- Then add enough rice flour to that mixture and cook on low heat. (The flour should be boiled so that it doesn't stick to the hands.)
- Sprinkle the fried flour on a tray and place the boiled green gram flour on it.
- Thin it well and cut the pieces to the desired shape.
- Add wheat flour to the coconut milk and mix well to make a flour cover.
- Add saffron powder and salt to it and dissolve.
- Cover the flour mixture on the cut pieces.
- Then take a flat pan, put oil in it and put it on the stove and fry the covering cut pieces in the pan while the boils.
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sweets