Harischandra Kurakkan Flour is 100% kurakkan (finger millet) flour, milled to a coarse grade and packed in 400g bags. Kurakkan flour was one of the first packed products of Harischandra, in 1953, after the business began by milling rice, kurakkan and chillies in Matara in 1943.
Kurakkan has a nutty, earthy taste and a red brown colour, and it is a staple flour of village cooking in Sri Lanka. The pack carries the Sri Lanka Standards Institution mark for kurakkan flour (SLS 928).
In the kitchen
- Kurakkan roti: mix with scraped coconut, chopped onion, green chilli and salt, add water to a dough and cook on a hot pan.
- Kurakkan pittu and string hoppers, steamed in the usual way.
- Kurakkan thalapa and welithalapa, a sweet made with jaggery and coconut.
- Mix part kurakkan into wheat flour for breads and pancakes.
In the pack
- Ingredients: 100% kurakkan flour.
- Net weight: 400g.
Storage
Keep tightly closed in a cool, dry place away from sunlight; move an opened pack to an airtight jar.
Harischandra Mills PLC of Matara, Sri Lanka, founded by C. A. Harischandra in 1943, makes the Harischandra range of foods and soaps.
