Gova Kaldu

Gova Kaldu
Type	Soup
Place of origin	Sri Lanka
Main ingredients	Cabbage, Chicken

Gova Kaldu is a traditional Sri Lankan spiced cabbage and chicken broth.^[1] It was often served with Idiyappam (string hoppers).^[2]

This dish is most likely of Portuguese origin, its name, kaldu is derived from caldo, the Portuguese name for broth and gova from the Portuguese cabbage known as couve tronchuda.^[3]

It was quite popular among elite Sinhalese families of the olden days until the early part of the 20th century.

References

^ Gooneratne, Yasmine (1986). Relative Merits: A Personal Memoir of the Bandaranaike Family of Sri Lanka. Hurst. p. 255. ISBN 9780905838977.
^ Bandaranaike, Lakshmi Dias (1994). FDB (Contributed articles on Felix Reginald Dias Bandaranaike). p. 34.
^ Hussein, Asiff (5 January 2017). "The Curious Case Of 'Traditional' Sri Lankan Food And Their Foreign Origins". Roar Media. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

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[1] Gooneratne, Yasmine (1986). Relative Merits: A Personal Memoir of the Bandaranaike Family of Sri Lanka. Hurst. p. 255. ISBN 9780905838977.

[2] Bandaranaike, Lakshmi Dias (1994). FDB (Contributed articles on Felix Reginald Dias Bandaranaike). p. 34.

[3] Hussein, Asiff (5 January 2017). "The Curious Case Of 'Traditional' Sri Lankan Food And Their Foreign Origins". Roar Media. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

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