Breadfruit curry is one of the most popular and delicious curry in Sri Lanka. We used to eat this as curry, boiled breadfruit with some freshly scraped coconut, breadfruit mallum or deep fried breadfruit chips coated with caramelized sugar or treacle. I just love all these ways. Here’s some deep fried breadfruit chips coated with caramelized treacle that my mother did for us… I really…

I’m a big fan of raw mango curry. I grew up eating pineapple curry, ambaralla curry and mango curry but nowadays people are cooking almost all the fruits. Sorry…!! I’m not gonna give a single second to try anything else than these three fruits. But only except “raw papaya mallum” (because this is in my cooking wishlist) Though I love these three curries my husband…

Cashews, the most expensive nut. When we were kids, very rarely we get a chance to eat cashew curry. Every year on Good Friday my mother cook cashew, lagoon prawns and dried fish stir fried. It’s the most memorable cashew dish in my childhood. She used to hide it until she cook it because she surely knew about her kids. And the other memorable moment…

Nowadays people are used to cook almost all the fruits in the entire world but when I was a kid I had seen only Pineapple,Raw mango and June plums (Ambaralla) were cooking. And still I am into to that category. It is really hard me to cook other fruits other than these three.  After so many months I got an opportunity to cook some Ambaralla….

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 to her meat curries, specially for her beef curry. So…

  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 the island and Sri Lanka got uncountable numbers of pastry…

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 time for this recipe. But whenever she cannot gets some…

ANNASI is what we call PINEAPPLE in Ceylon. A tropical flavourful fruit. Most of us are like to eat well ripped pineapple, sometime with a touch of little bit of chilli powder and salt or ground pepper and salt on top. Or may be as a mouthwatering spicy tangy sweet Achcharu (Pickle) and sometimes like many drinks/popsicle/ice cream and there are many more ways to…