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You'll spend the morning at Maria's kitchen table rolling kulkuls against a fork, shaping marzipan fruits by hand, and frying golden neureos filled with coconut and jaggery. By lunchtime you'll have a full box of Christmas sweets, several of which you probably won't have tasted before.
Kuswar is a full spread of a dozen or more sweets that Goan Catholic families traditionally exchange at Christmas, and the sheer labour involved means fewer households make the complete set from scratch each year.
Kuswar, meaning a mix or assortment, brings together sweets of Portuguese and local Goan origin, exchanged between neighbours as part of Christmas festivities across Goa.
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Morning
Shape and fry kulkuls and neureos
Midday
Make marzipan fruit shapes and coconut sweets
Afternoon
Box up your kuswar assortment
Difficulty
Easy — no experience needed
Age suitability
8 and up
Rolling kulkuls on a fork
Shaping marzipan fruits
The finished kuswar boxPhotographs from this experience will replace these panels once available.
How many sweets do we make?
Typically 3-4 varieties from the full kuswar spread, depending on time and season.
Is this only available at Christmas?
Maria runs it year-round, though the atmosphere is liveliest in December.
“Kulkuls are fiddly but oddly satisfying once you get the fork motion right.”
Fiona M. · 5/5
“Left with a box of sweets and a much better understanding of Goan Christmas.”
Arun V. · 5/5
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