The Dancing kitchen

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…

DATE CAKE

Delicious, moist and rich golden date cake is easy to make and perfect for your tea time or share with your lovelies. This was inspired by my aunty and completely her recipe. She is the one who always with the baking recipes in our family. And I still remember when I was a little girl,…

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…

SAFFRON RISOTTO

This creamy saffron risotto is my most favourite risotto among all. Saffron Risotto is the most simple and easy risotto with loads of flavours Always try to use good quality rice suit for your risotto. Arborio or carnaroli are what I use. Try to make your own broth. Use carrot, onion, celery stalk and tomato(optional)…

LAVARIYA

Sri Lankan tea time/ breakfast favourite. Treacle mixed caramelised freshly scraped coconut stuffed in string hopper dumplings. Used steamed wheat flour for the string hopper, but you can use rice flour too. Some use jagger/sugar to caramelise the coconut but Treacle is what my mother use every time. Never thought this was this much easy….

SPAGHETTI WITH SCAMPI SHRIMPS

What dish will take main part of your traditional Christmas Eve? Not yet planned. Try this easy scampi shrimps spaghetti for your family dinner. 1.i got 6 medium scampi, was roughly about 250g. Carefully remove the head, shell, clean and wash. Gently crush the body with knife to absorb the flavours. 2.heat the pan with…

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…

PULLED PORK LOIN SAUCE

As pork takes the main part of our meals most of the time, I got some pork loin in refrigerator. It was a quick idea came to mind, what if I slow cook this? Or just a Italian meat sauce style? I got everything for Italian meat sauce in home. So here I cooked in…

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…

POL ROTI & SARDINE FISH CURRY

Before you get the recipe, remember here you got two most favourite and famous Sri Lankan recipes together. This pol roti is so rich in freshly scraped coconut, nothing else just the traditional pol roti with loads of coconut, flour, salt and water. That’s how the dough was made. Usually my mom use some “kalati…

POTATO & LEEKS CURRY

Trying my mom in law’s creamy potato & leeks curry for the very first time in my kitchen. I really never had these two together like this, not even at her place. but my husband was saying about this curry from week and forcing me to cook this. Got the recipe from my mom in…

CRÊPES

Happy morning with happy tummy. Morning with some Nutella stuffed sweet crêpes and fresh strawberries. Who would say NO? Crêpes are one of our best and the best breakfast in holidays. We never eat our crêpes without a good spread of Nutella. I think these two have a beautiful relationship, am I wrong? We are…

SHRIMP & PANCETTA FRIED RICE

Some simple shrimp and smoked pancetta fried rice to fix the Sunday lunch. . Sunday means mostly RICE for us, after a hectic week finally got a time for myself. Though was planning for good rice and curry, at last changed my mind. Chopped and added those shrimps for rice with some smoked pancetta I…

SRI LANKAN BEETROOT CURRY

Honestly I’m not a big fan of Beetroot. Not even a little bit . The main and only reason is, I really don’t like it’s Red colour. Though I cook beetroot for others, these won’t take part in my plate. Started to hate the colour of beetroot when I was a little girl. Though other…

CREAMY TURMERIC POTATO aka ALA KIRI HODI

Creamy turmeric potato curry aka “ala Kiri hodi” is every Sri Lankan child’s favourite curry. One of the main toddler food but without tempering. Some people completely boiled potatoes and when the coconut milk with spices begins to bubbling they add the potatoes, some completely cooked the potatoes in coconut milk but what I learnt…

BIBIKKAN/POL CAKE

Less than a week for Christmas. What kind of sweets are you gonna prepare? Still no idea. Try this traditional BIBIKKAN recipe from our family. So easy to make and you won’t stop eating this. Get the recipe and don’t forget to make a good strong ginger infused Ceylon tea to enjoy your cake. Coconut…

SLOW COOKED PORK SHANK

what’s your favourite pork shank recipe? Mine is, those slow cooked shanks in IKEA. Yes…..!!! We both love those Swedish meatballs with gravy and slow cooked pork shank in IKEA. No doubt those are the best. whenever we were at IKEA, he was asking “when will you cook some pork shank” and “sooner” was my…

TUNA & EGG PUFF PASTRY

Savoury pastry, filled with canned tuna, hard boiled eggs, herbs and Sri lankan spices. One of the famous breakfast, teatime snack, party food idea of Sri Lankan’s and specially short-eat snack when you are busy, on the way. In Sri Lanka we got lots of pastry shops here and there. We used to eat at…

INDIAN BUTTER CHICKEN CURRY

This lip smacking butter chicken curry is something you definitely need to cook. This is my simplest version of easy, classic and one pot Indian butter chicken that anyone could cook. All you need is some delicious naan or steamed rice to complete the menu. . Use skinless, boneless chicken breast to this curry and…

SRI LANKAN SPICY SAUTÉED SHRIMPS

Spicy shrimps? Who would say “No” All you need is some steamed rice and creamy dhal curry to start the Zumba in your tummy with these. Spicy sautéed shrimps are what we usually call “Isso Thel Dala/ඉස්සෝ තෙල් දාලා…. This dish always takes part in our family, when it is special. As how I always…

FRIED EGGPLANT CURRY

Throwback to this amazing, delicious curry that I made for my man’s b’day. The dish we all love. we won’t miss, when it’s a special day. Deep fried thinly sliced long slim eggplant and deep fried aromas altogether sink in a bubbling coconut milk with all the essential spices and letting them to simmer couple…

PORK MEAT LOAF

meat loaf/giant meatball is a consist of ground meat with some other ingredients. Here I used some ground pork, but you could easily work with any ground meat chicken/turkey/beef/lamb or anything you prefer. P O L P E T T O N E is what in Italy they call. Normally I cook the store bought…

PUMPKIN RISOTTO

Okay….. if you are a Sri Lankan, I know my topic made you wired. But have you ever tried, at least a single spoon of pumpkin risotto…? Try, I know you can’t stop yourselves falling in love with it. If you ask, what’s my favourite veggie… no doubt it’s PUMPKIN. I love pumpkin more than…

CREAMY TROUT FILLTES

Never had a recipe like this in my mind before. And the idea came after seeing the heavy cream in my refrigerator. Bought it for some Swedish meatballs, which I always used to eat when I’m at IKEA, insanely in love with it’s sauce. It’s little bit crazy if I talk about this dish, because…