The Dancing kitchen

SRI LANAKAN DEVILLED CHICKEN

Where the hell chicken was gone..?? Don’t worry, I deep-fried and devilled it. is there any Sri Lankan fried rice, special menu, party table without devilled chicken. I guess no. this is one of the easiest and delicious chicken recipe. Just deep fry your marinated chicken and sauté with all the sauces, onion, garlic and…

Cake by the dancing kitchen

Baking, frosting and decorating a cake was something difficult for me. But I barely wanted to try the baking. So I’ve started watching and researching about baking. As a self taught home baker I’ve learned so many things and improving my knowledge on baking. At first I baked only for my family and then slowly…

DEEP FRIED CHICKEN CURRY

I already shared few recipes of my Sri Lankan chicken curry on my blog. And I always wanted to share this deep fried chicken curry version too. I just simply modified my mother’s deep fried chicken curry recipe with extra more spices. When my grandma was with us she used to add this spices mixture…

GRANDMA’S BEEF STEW

This is the very first time that I’m gonna share beef recipe on my blog. Never ever cooked before even. Most Sri Lankan’s don’t eat beef, because they think it as a sin. But I’m not belong that category. I had beef until I was around 7 or 8. Then one day when my…

SPICY SRI LANKAN CRAB CURRY

In my many seafood stories I had mentioned the relationship between me and seafood.but with crab its little bit different.Though the fish my father was selling and dry fishing was bought from the other boats vendors, most of the the time the giant crabs we had were farmed by Thaththa. Those days we got two…

SEAFOOD FRIED RICE

I was awaiting to try and share this recipe for long. Took time until I get a proper rice to make my fried rice. Basmati is everywhere but I was looking for rice belong to SAMBA family. Because those samba rice have an ultimate flavour, it reminds me about Sri Lankan fried rice done…

LANKAN STYLE DEVILLED TUNA FISH

Spicy, sweet and well balanced Sri Lankan style devilled fish anyone…? Well, you guys know almost most of the Sri Lankan dishes I share here followed by my mothers recipes. And this also I gotta learn from her kitchen. And in many of my seafood posts I mentioned the relationship between my family and…

CREAMY MUSHY CASSAVA CURRY

If someone is talking about traditional Sri Lankan food recipes and food combinations, I bet you won’t miss listening to this combination. And sometimes we substitute dry fish curry instead of pork curry to this combo. I guess I was 8 or 9, we had some cassava planted at the backyard of our home…

MIRIS MALUWA

As Sri Lankans we all know, eat this fish curry regularly. Apart from “Ambulthiyala” (sour fish curry) we carrying this recipe to preserve our fish for few more days. The coastal area we live, our elders mainly and mostly goes with fresh tuna to make this curry. And sometimes with fresh anchovies or sardine…

SCALLOP PASTA

If you guys go through my blog, you guys know how much I love seafood. Seafood is everything to me. Few weeks ago just we two celebrated hubby’s birthday and cooked this scallops pasta for lunch. Cooked scallops for the very first time and was too good with this tomato sauce made from fresh tomatoes. …

HONEY GLAZED PORK RIBS

When summer sun shine in every corner, everyone is getting ready for GRILLED/BBQ parties. What if you can’t do some GRILLED/BBQ outside? Prepare your ribs and pan, stove on. Let’s do some indoor summer cooking. This is my favourite way to do PORK RIBS, there may be thousands of recipes but I cannot get…

ARGENTINE RED SHRIPM COUSCOUS

This super simple and delicious Argentine Red Shrimp couscous is just fantastic. In my instagram you may noticed that I cook couscous mostly in my kitchen. Hell yeah..!! We all love couscous. I never get bored with this meal. So easy to cook and I can eat a whole pack alone. Here I used some…

CHICKPEA BURRITO

Looking for a healthy wrap? Then what about this chickpea burrito? Got a store bought burrito mix packet and this was sitting in my pantry for months now. Though I always wanted to use it, every time I forget. And finally mixed it with some chickpeas and did some healthy burritos. Great idea for meal…

SQUID INK RISOTTO

Before all I must be honest. Not a big fan of Squid ink dishes. This was always far and far away from my list. But hubby’s one favourite from his list. We were doing grocery shopping and he came to me with a squid ink container from the fish market. He already talked with…

FRIED SPICY POTATO – ALA BADUMA

I have already shared two recipes of Sri Lankan potato curries in my blog. One is most famous Sri Lankan creamy potato curry which I learned from my mother’s kitchen. creamy potato curry is cook in almost every Sri Lankan kitchen. But my next potato curry which I learned from my mother in law…

HEALTHY BAGELS

since my bread recipes and burger bun recipe turn out well, I’m so obsessed with baking breads and buns. After so many researches, attempts and failures I gotta know something about baking breads and buns. And these wholegrain seeded bagels again proved to myself how much I studied about baking breads. So happy how…

LAGOON PRAWNS AND CASHEWS

This dish always takes part in our Good Friday menu. Basically in all our neighbours and relatives menu. As how we stop eating meat during lent until Easter Sunday, almost all the ladies in our area/village used to cook this prawns and cashew stir fry as a special dish on Good Friday. My mother…

PRAWN BIRIYANI

This blog post is completely for seafood lovers only. Prawn biriyani, tell me who doesn’t love….? Ever tried my chicken biriyani recipe…? Then, this is not a big deal for you to make this prawn biriyani. I just followed my chicken biriyani recipe for this, substituted with prawns. Delicious, flavourful and layered prawn biriyani…

BOLOGNESE AND LASAGNA

Happy news is here I’m gonna share two recipes in one blog post. This is how you make your own homemade bolognese meat sauce or RAGU as how these Italian people call. Based on ground meat, tomato purée and more other loads of flavours. Start with good flavourful soffritto of veggies then cooking your…

SPICY SHRIMP PASTA

Who doesn’t love some seafood pasta? Specially when it is shrimps…. Cooked some pasta with shrimps with tomato sauce with touch of spiciness, because we were craving for some shrimps for long. Finally got some shrimps from the market and used some for create this beautiful dish. Never had a clue on what’s happening…

WATERMELON & MINT GRANITA

Last summer tried making black cherry granita at home. It was so perfect, delicious and refreshing. And I saw some watermelons smiling at the farmers market and bought a baby watermelon just to make some watermelon granita. Babe…..!!! It was awesome so refreshing. Just perfect for hot weather days. It’s always easy as the…

WHITE BREAD WITH NUTS

Just a classic white bread loaf from 00 flour and fancy toppings. I always love to create something new in my every work. I love to see some simple fancy look on my works. it makes me feel better, comfortable. I started to think, pay attention what I cook from the moment I enter…

BAKED FISH PATTIES

Savoury patties are mostly welcome in Sri Lankan snack tray, party table and many more other occasions. They are mostly filled with canned fish and veggies almost all the time. if you are craving for some patties, you can find them from street vendors who sell deep fried short eats in every corner of…

HOMEMADE BURGER BUNS

Since my bread turns out well, and I started to believe in myself on my own baking. Now I don’t buy breads from stores.i bake my own bread. And I was craving for some juicy burgers. But still we are under lockdown due to Covid 19. Not a single burger restaurant available near me who…

BLACK CHERRY GRANITA

Summer is on the way. And we all miss our refreshing drinks, gelato and granita. This cherry granita was all about my last summer and I badly miss these. Can’t wait to find some cherry in this summer to make my own homemade cherry granita. This was my first trial on making my own granita…

REVAMPED KAHA BATH

YELLOW FRAGRANT RICE Kaha bath or yellow rice is one of the special rice that we cook in our homes on some special days. People who can afford use basmati rice but those who cannot, use some other good quality rice available in Sri Lanka. My mother used to cook basmati rice most of the…