I made so many festival sweets and pickles as the New Year is around the corner! | Traditional Me

Time to make toffees, festival sweets and pickles and much more...! As per Sinhala traditional custom, Our New Year dawns on the 14th of April. We do have a very authentic way of naming the 12months of the year as per the Sri Lankan customary calendar and the month of April is been called the month of “Bak”. The entire country comes alive in the month of April(“Bak”)with the advance frequent awakening call of the sweet song of the cuckoo bird. This traditional festival starts with the dawn of the 1st day of the month of Bak and considered to be a very significant summer festival. Farmers reap the bountiful harvest of their crops, and offer the first share of the fresh harvest to the Supreme Lord Buddha. I strongly feel that this is another way of showing abundant gratitude and appreciation to the Sun God as well as the dawning of the New Year and the related festivities are all based around the Sun of the planetary system. Since the dawn of the month of “Bak”(April), every household gets excited and get ready as per their best ability to celebrate the Sinhala and Hindu New Year! Buying of new clothes, preparing traditional New Year sweets, cleaning and tidying the houses are some of our ancestral traditional customs to welcome the dawning of the New Year! Since the New Year is coming closer, I also made in advance some varieties of “Aluth Avurudhu “(New Year) sweets which can be kept for some time without getting spoilt! I made Coconut Toffee, Potato Toffee, Cashew Aluwa(Cashew and Rice flour toffee), Sweet Samolina Tofees, Milk Toffees, Sugar Coated Murukku( crunchy deep fried snacks coated in sugar syrup), Sesame Balls, Muscat(a variety of sweet gooey toffees) in order to avoid the last minute New Year rush! Though It was a very good idea to make the New Year sweets in advance , safeguarding them from our dear brother will be a quite a challenge for me! Best thing which I did was to separate his lion's share and handed it over to him. But yet it didn’t work effectively as since there wasn’t any "seeni murukku"(sugar coated fried snack) in his bottle of sweets, he had wacked half of the bottle that I kept for the new year! Well actually it was not an issue at all since that was his way of enjoying and been happy. I truly didn’t mind at all as every ones new year always depends on their emotional happiness and the way that they prefer to celebrate it. After all, New Year is the joy and the happiness of the mind! I made a scrumptious fried mixture and a pickle in advance to go with the New Year’s Kiribath(milk rice) platter. The pickle gets more and more yummy when kept for longer period. I made extra pickle to send it to our Elder Aunty's place as the little sister really loves my pickle.The traditional way of making the pickle is by mixing capsicum, shallots, beans, carrots, raw papaya pieces after immersing them and quickly boiled in natural coconut vinegar. I know brother will whack a single pot of milk rice with this fresh pickle. Even the fried mixture is also outstanding. I got a opportunity to taste this fry during a visit to an alms giving of a relatives house in Weligama! Such a wholesome and a taste buds tingling fry got one addition of fried cashew nuts from me. It’s a very familiar and a common fried dish for the people of the southern coastal belt of Sri Lanka . This fried dish can be kept for about 4 weeks in an airtight container. It’s a relief now as there are plenty of free days to clean and prepare the house for the dawning of the "Aluth Avuruddha"(Sinhala and Hindu New Year ), which is around the corner! Love you All! Nadee —————————————————— © All rights reserved I made so many festival sweets and pickles as the New Year is around the corner! | Traditional Me —————————————————— Please turn on CC (Subtitles) to know the ingredient names. 乡村烹饪 cuisine de village गाँव का खाना बनाना cucina del villaggio طبخ القرية Dorfkochen 村の料理 dorp koken 마을 요리 pagluluto ng nayon деревенская кухня cozinha da vila ഗ്രാമീണ പാചകം cocina del pueblo গ্রাম রান্না vesnické vaření landsby madlavning ចម្អិនអាហារតាមភូមិ kylän ruoanlaitto गाउँ खाना पकाउने masakan desa கிராம சமையல் masakan kampung หมู่บ้านทำอาหาร gotowanie na wsi köy pişirme làng nấu ăn ရွာချက်ပြုတ် μαγειρική στο χωριό villa coctione Inspired by 李子柒 Liziqi and Dianxi Xiaoge Watch all my videos(playlist) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7Dd.... Music - Traditional Me © My life journey (web) - https://www.traditionalme.life FACEBOOK :   / traditionalm...​   #villagecooking​​​​ #srilankanfood​​​​ #traditionalme​​​​ #village​​​​ #villagelife​​​​ #villagefood​​​​ #nadee​​​​ #countryfood​​​​ #dessert​​ #srilankancooking