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…
Tag: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Dancing kitchen 