Miss Mattie’s Kulma

Preparation info
  • Makes

    40

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Sweet Hands: Island Cooking from Trinidad and Tobago

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

  • About

This is a popular dessert for Diwali but is sold by street vendors year-round. Kulma most closely resemble the crunchy noodles you get in Chinese restaurants, except they are coated with sugar.

Ingredients

  • 4 tablespoons (½ stick) unsalted butter
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour

Method

  1. Combine the butter and flour and knead into a firm dough. Roll out the dough ¼ inch thick.
  2. Heat a tawa or heavy-bottomed skillet. Place the dough on the tawa and cook for about 1 minute. Flip the dough and cook for 1 minute on the other side. Remove and cut into strips ab