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…
Author: thedancingkitchen1
Hello, I’m Neludi. Originally from Sri Lanka and currently live in Italy. This blog is all about my home cuisine. All photographs are taken by myself. All these recipes what I share here are my own. After so many researches, attempts and failure what I learned. So please do not copy and post in other sites/pages without my permission or giving credits.
BREADFRUIT CURRY
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…
RAW MANGO CURRY
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…
CASHEW & GREEN PEAS
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…
TANGY & SWEET AMBARALLA
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…
FAVA OF THE SPRING
Fava/board bean is one of the popular legume in Mediterranean cuisine specially during spring/summer season. Much bigger than normal bean seed and looks fluffy and giant. Rich in lots of nutrients and can cook in many ways. You can eat just boiled fava beans, cook with pasta/risotto, ideal for bruschetta/toast, can toss up with salad…
AMBULTHIYALA (sour fish curry)
Ambulthiyala means sour fish. This is one of the most famous, delicious and cannot miss curry in Sri Lankan traditional menu. Originally from south coast of Sri Lanka and basically cooked with tuna fish. The “Ambul” or the “Sourness” comes from the second main ingredient “Goraka”. Fish is cooked with goraka paste and few more…
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…
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