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: CURRIES
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
The Dancing kitchen 