Today we are preparing to make a delicious Rulang Aluwa on our website that everyone, big and small, loves. This dessert is seen in every house as a gift for festivals and New Year in Sri Lanka. Today we are making only one type of product, there are many types of Rulang, and we will post the method of making it on our website.
Ingredients
- Semolina – 250g
- Scraped Coconut – 150g
- sugar – 250g
- Water – 1/2 cup
- Salt
How to make Rulang Aluwa
250g Semolina, heat in a pan, just until you get a nice smell. Do not fry until the color changes to a deep brown; just wait for a good aroma. Keep stirring to avoid sticking to the pan (you will feel that). Smells nice, so let’s turn off the stove (no color change). After that, get semolina into a container and keep the pan on the stove again & add 150g of scraped coconut. Let’s heat this a bit until the moisture dries off, keep strrring just like we did with semolina. Now it’s kind of dry… turn off the stove and mix the coconut with semolina.
Now let’s heat 250g of sugar to make syrup/treacle. If you like our sweets to be brown, use brown sugar. But if you want Aluwa to be white or add coloring, use white sugar. Now add 125ml of water (1/2cup). I’ve proposed a clearer version of the instruction at the sugar syrup step, making the heating and stirring process more precise. This should help ensure the syrup is prepared correctly. We don’t heat sugar a lot, only for a little while after the sugar melts. Now that all the sugar is melted, let’s heat it a little more to make it a bit thicker.
Let’s make syrup
The last drop streches about half an inch, as you can see in our video. Turn off the stove and carefully pour the syrup into a clean container to cool slightly. In a separate container, add ground cardamom (about 4–5 seeds) and mix well. Allow the syrup to cool just until it is warm to the touch—you should be able to comfortably dip your finger in, but it shouldn’t be cold.
Add 1/4tsp of salt to the semolina mixture & mix it, and add a little of the semolina mixture into the syrup & mix well. We first mix with a spoon, then we use our hands and add the last bit of semolina mixture. Mix well with your hand, it’s not too hot now. Adding a bit of coloring, you can make it look good (choose what color you need). If you are adding coloring, make it light to get a beautiful color.
Finishing
After mixing well like this, we gonna spread it on a flat surface. If yo gonna cut these into diamonds, make the mixture into a diamond shape first (easy cutting). You can cut it how would you like it have if you like. When you spread the mixture, take your time coz it won’t get hardened as we cool down the sugar syrup a little.
Now it’s ready, and we’re gonna mark the lines from where we’re gonna cut. We will separate the pieces after half an hour. Just mark the lines and cut them carefully. Now we are done with the lines, let it cool down for half an hour to separate the pieces. It’s been half an hour, it’s cooled down, let’s separate the pieces. Here we have our delicious Rulang Aluwa! Super delicious, but not hard to bite into too.
Notice: Make sure not to use sugar syrup when it’s too hot or not too cold & do not toch by hand
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Credited: https://www.youtube.com/@tharuzcafe