It’s the golden question… Normally the demand rises especially during the Sinhala, Tamil new year season and the Ramadan celebrations in the country but there is a constant demand in traditional sweet and tea shops, wedding celebrations and in touristic…
Jaggery is a sweetener that’s becoming popular as a “healthy” replacement for sugar. The glucose and fructose content in the kithul syrup/treacle/jaggery is extremely low and as a result in the Glycaemic Index or GI, this is ranked as a…
Kithul pani and jaggery is used as an ingredient in most of the sweet and savoury dishes in Sri Lankan cuisines. Other uses include jaggery toffees and jaggery cake made with cashew nuts, peanuts, pumpkin preserve and spices. Jaggery is…
The narrative of Sri Lanka’s most cherished sweetener commences with the “Kithul ” or “Fish Tail ” palm tree, the location and a tapper. Wild Kithul Trees (Fish Tail Palm) are mostly grown in the rainforests and in the intermediate…
For most parts of the world “Sweet” is literally “sugar made from sugarcane sap or syrup”. But what if there is a substitute equal in taste or even better and healthier? That’s right! You may wonder if there is anything…
