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Traditional Dishes Of Sri Lanka

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Kiribath

It is a fine mixture of coconut milk and rice and is indeed a celebratory dish. Before the rice finishes cooking, add coconut milk and a pinch of salt. The coconut milk makes the rice creamy and rich and helps it form a sticky consistency. Once the rice is finished cooking, it’s cut into wedges and served like slices of cake.It pairs well with jaggery, chili paste, or a spiced curry. Still, it is the ‘lunu miris’ that is the most popular accompaniment for it.

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Lamprais

Lamprais, is a combination of meat, rice and sambol chili sauce, wrapped into a banana leaf packet and steamed.Since lamprais is a Dutch contribution to Sri Lankan cuisine, the meat is usually prepared with sweet spices like clove and cinnamon, recreating the flavor favored by the Dutch community.

Biriyani

It is a mixed rice dish, flavored with cashew nuts, meat, and veggies. with the use of authentic Sri Lankan spices, and the unique culinary styles of srilanka the biriyani found here is special, and exclusive.

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Polos (jackfruit)

The tender jackfruit curry or the ‘gata polos maluwa’ as it is known amongst the locals is prepared by cooking medium-sized chunks of unripe jackfruit in coconut sauce enriched with various Ceylon spices.

Made the same way, mature jackfruit is used as an accompaniment for rice. When boiled or steamed and paired with scraped coconut or an accompaniment, mature jackfruit serves as a substitute for rice.

Ripe jackfruit is consumed as a fruit by locals. It has a strong aroma that screams of exotic tropics and a sweet taste that is somewhat akin to that of pineapples.  

In addition, jack fruit seeds are eaten boiled, ground, roasted and cooked in dishes

Wambatu moju

wambatu moju is an extremely flavorful candied eggplant (brinjals) pickle.The eggplant  is cut into bite-sized wedges and deep fried, giving the eggplant a crispy texture with a soft and silky interior.It’s then caramelized with a spoon of sugar, vinegar, red onions, green chilies, mustard seeds, chili powder and a hint of turmeric powder until the color turns almost black.

Gotu kola sambol (pennywort salad)

Gotu kola (known in English as Asiatic pennywort) is a medicinal herb in Asia. It’s shredded into slivers, then combined with shallots, tomatoes, fresh grated coconut and chili and seasoned with a dressing of salt, pepper and lemon juice. Gotu kola has a powerful, herbaceous flavor similar to kale, making it an extremely fresh and crisp dish. It’s typically a side dish served with curry and rice.

Pol Sambol (coconut relish)

Pol sambol, which might also be called fresh coconut relish, is a simple blend of finely grated coconut, red onions, dried whole chilies or chili powder, lime juice, salt and Maldive fish (if available). The ingredients are diced or ground, then combined in a bowl.

In Sri Lanka, pol sambol is used as a garnish or side dish for everything and anything

Ambul Thiyal (Sour Fish Curry)

A popular dish made with tuna fish, curry leaf, cinnamon, garlic, turmeric, pandan leaves, various spices and dried goraka. Ambul thiyal is a dry curry dish, meaning all the ingredients are simmered with a small amount of water and cooked until the liquid reduces. This allows the spice mixture to coat each cube of fish.

Kukul mas curry (chicken curry)

Spices like fennel seeds, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon sticks are tempered in hot oil before being combined with chicken and spices like chili powder, curry powder, turmeric, pandan leaves, lemongrass and curry leaves.Coconut milk contributes to the rich base of the curry gravy. Depending on the recipe, a puree of tomato is often included.

Kaju curry

Kaju curry, is a mildly spiced vegan cashew nut curry that is full of texture and crunch. The curry is cooked with coconut milk, to give it a creamy and sweet flavor, which balances the heat of the chilies. The cashew nuts soak up the flavor of the spices and add bite to the dish.

Parippu (dhal curry)

Parippu, or dhal curry, is the most common curry in all of Sri Lankan cuisine, a staple in any restaurant or household. Masoor dhal (split red lentils) are first rinsed and boiled until soft.A number of fresh ingredients, such as onions, tomatoes and fresh green chilies, are sauteed and mixed with tempered spices like cumin seeds, turmeric, fenugreek, mustard seeds and curry leaves.All the ingredients are combined and usually thickened with a splash of fresh coconut milk to give the dhal a rich flavor and creamy texture.

appa (Hoppers)

The batter is made from a slightly fermented concoction of rice flour, coconut milk,sometimes coconut water and a hint of sugar.

A ladle of batter is fried in a small wok and swirled around to even it out. Hoppers can be sweet or savory, but one of the local favorites is egg hoppers. An egg is cracked into the bowl-shaped pancake, creating the Sri Lankan version of an “egg in the hole.”

Egg hoppers are eaten with lunu miris, a sambol of onions, chilies, lemon juice and salt or meat curries

Indiappa (String Hoppers)

String hoppers are made from a much thicker dough. The dough is squeezed through a string hopper maker, like a pasta press, to create thin strands of noodles, which are steamed.String hoppers are normally eaten for breakfast or dinner with curries

Kottu

A grilled mix of vegetables, eggs, shredded meat, and roti. When you place an order, the kottu chef will fry and chop the roti with a selection of ingredients you choose. The result is a tasty mixture of salty pieces of fried dough, lightly spiced and extremely comforting. At a Sri Lankan market, you’ll likely hear the clanking of metal on metal and know kottu isn’t far away

Pittu

It is made of steamed cylinders of ground rice layered with coconut shavings, sometimes with a sweet or savory filling on the inside. The process of making pittu is simply mixing coconut with the rice flour to form a “crumbled texture” mixture.  Then that mixture is placed in the cylinder tube of the Pittu steamer and steamed for about 5-6 minutes and it comes out as a solid Pittu tube.

Pol Roti

A flat bread made from wheat flour and coconuts. . Since it doesn’t use any leavening (yeast or baking powder or baking soda), it’s really simple to make too. Shredded coconut is mixed with flour, and a few other ingredients, and then formed into a dough with water or coconut milk. The dough is rolled in to flattened bread and cooked until you see golden brown spots.

Jaffna Odiyal Kool

one of the most favorite dishes especially for Tamil people. It is a kind of spicy seafood soup. Keep in mind guys, it is very spicy. This delicious Jaffna Odiyal Kool contains all four major seafood, fish, prawns/shrimps, squids/cuttlefish, crabs , tamarind and spinach

 

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