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…
Category: Asian Cuisine
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…
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…
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…
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…
SPICY JUICY ANNASI
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…
CEYLON BLACK PORK CURRY
Black pork curry is one of the authentic flavourful Sri Lankan meat curry. Meaty pork chunks cooked with some fatty parts along with Ceylon spices and simmer in low heat with touch of thick coconut milk and at last sprinkle some Ceylon black curry powder. That’s how we describe this authentic Ceylon black pork curry….
CHICKEN BIRIYANI
Who doesn’t love some chicken biriyani packed with loads of flavours? I’m a big fan of Indian food. And biriyani is top of among all. Most of the time when I don’t have time for fancy food for party table I do my one pot biriyani with whatever I have in the kitchen. But you…
WATTAKKA KALU POL CURRY
Wattakka is what we call for “Pumpkin” in Sri Lanka. if you ask what’s my favourite veggie curry? No doubt its Pumpkin. I love eating pumpkin in all the time. my mom used to cook pumpkin curry with semi boiled pumpkin chunks. And she always leave some pieces with freshly scraped coconut to us eat…
PARIPPU MALLUM
Parippu what we call for dhal in Sri Lanka. An essential curry on our everyday rice and curry plate. There isn’t a meal without a dhal curry in Sri Lanka. We eat dhal curry with various food items. Not only with rice but with many foods. you alway need some good creamy dhal curry to…
BLACK CHICKEN CURRY
This is my forever favourite chicken curry. My mother used to cook this on special days. This black chicken curry, sautéed pineapple, deep fried eggplant curry with her yellow rice is my favourite combo ever. My mother used to cook this curry with dry roasted chilli powder. I already shared her CHILLI POWDER process…
CHICKEN STUFFED ROTI
If you are a Sri Lankan I know you definitely had plenty of these in your life. “Mas Roti” that’s what we used to call these in Sri Lanka. Mas=Meat. generally these are stuffed with Beef. But as how I keep myself away from Beef, used some chicken as my roti filling. And if you…
LEMON RICE
Rice… staple food of Sri Lanka and very famous among Asian countries. Well we all know to cook many types of rice. Even I, and instead of cooking normal white rice I prefer to modify it with some ingredients which I can find in my day to day kitchen. Try out this lemon rice and…
BROCCOLI MALLUM
Dear Lankan/Asian people, how much do you love to have some Jackfruit Mallum AKA Kos Mallum on your plate? Lots, right..? But what if you couldn’t find some Jackfruits..? Ever thought about any substitution? Well… let me introduce this Broccoli Mallum, flavour more similar to Jackfruit. I got two heads of broccoli, bought couple of…
EGG MASALA CURRY
As much as I cook Sri Lankan and Italian food in my kitchen, I do Indian and Mexican too. (I love Mexican cuisine too) I’m never bored of eating all these food, never ever. This egg masala curry is something I mostly do accompany with my biriyani or roti. Cooked this again a couple of…
CHICKEN KALU POL CURRY
Why everyone talks only about “Pork Kalu Pol”? When we can make “Chicken Kalu Pol” also…. Since the day my mother revealed about her Pork Kalu Pol curry, I had cooked it many times. Also already shared on my blog. I was planning everything for my weekend rice and curry. Had some chicken thighs in…
CHICKEN AND VEGGIE STEW
My mom used to make this Sri Lankan chicken stew whenever we got some visitors/special day in our home. I’d seen various types of stew recipe but I guess her recipe is somewhat different than those. IDK is it differ from region to region or anything else, but the only thing that I know is,…
DAL CURRY
Red lentil/ dal curry is the traditional and most famous, important curry that always take part in Sri Lankan cuisine. Cooked with coconut milk and rich in flavours with spices and herbs. The most easiest curry that can cook in less than 30 minuets and completely vegan. I’ve been noticing some videos on YouTube about…
SINHALA ACHCHARU
An authentic Sri Lankan meal is not complete without a spoonful of lip smacking “Sinhala achcharu” The word A C H C H A R U means P I C K L E. It’s a consist of peppers, shallots, semi rip papaya, carrots and rest are differ from family to family/region to region. All the…
SRI LANKAN BLACK PRAWN CURRY
It’s the last week of my vacation. i swear this is the best vacation I’ve ever spent in SL with my family. As how I being with my family, in my home, where I grew up made my vacation super. And it was double super as how I got the vacation for Christmas. Celebrated Christmas…
SALMON FISH CURRY
Norwegian salmon head in coconut milk with black curry powder and essential Sri Lankan fragrant When everyone goes with salmon fish head stew/soup, I was thinking to make it in our own version. Firstly wanted to create a creamy turmeric fish head curry but as how salmon fish contain fat, My mother was asking me…
STUFFED POL ROTI
Ever thought of making some quesadillas without tortilla? Sounds wired, right? Then what if we substitute some POL ROTI instead of TORTILLAS. Try, you’ll love it. These pol rotties were stuffed with spicy canned tuna and cheese. CHEESE? Yes…!!! Because in Spanish “Queso” means “Cheese” so how could we miss cheese in our pol rotties…
The Dancing kitchen 