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…
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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…
A HEALTHY BREAD
BREAD… This is totally out of my list. (To remember one day) I’m posting this during quarantine 2020 due to covid 19. I tried making Sri Lankan roast paan three times in these quarantine days. First time I failed, totally. And then second time it was somewhat success (I think) but I failed to…
SWEDISH MEATBALLS
How do you prefer your homemade meatballs? I got two main menus. One is “Polpette al sugo” like how Italian calls, Meatballs in tomato sauce. And the other favourite menus is “Swedish meatballs” the one with creamy sauce. I started to eat these Swedish meatballs from Ikea. every time when we do shopping at…
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….
ITALIAN MEATBALLS
Looking for some juicy tender meatballs…? Here you are at the right site. These meatballs are made with few ingredients what we usually find in our everyday kitchen. But packed with loads of flavours. These meatballs are not fried, seared in the pan in low flame until all get brown and halfway cooked. And then…
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…
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…
TIRAMISU
Tiramisu is a very popular dessert in Italy. Generally tiramisu is coffee flavoured dessert but some use matcha, Japanese green tea powder to flavour this dessert instead of coffee. Let’s go through the traditional recipe but without eggs and alcohol. Tiramisu without eggs and alcohol. Yes….!! Do exists, right… Try this version. I know…
NUTELLA BROWNIES
One more nutella recipe to my blog.. As you may noticed, I’m a big fan of Nutella. I can eat Nutella in my whole life. Uh…!!! Who cares about calories when there’s chocolate, right…? This is my all time favorite Nutella Brownie, this picture was captured in couple of years ago. Though I bake this…
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…
SEENISAMBOL BUNS
Seeni sambol or spicy caramelised onion relish is one of the most famous Sri Lankan side dish or filling in our buns/pastry/bread/milk rice and many more. It’s a combination of spiciness from dried chilli flakes, sweet from sugar and tangy from tamarind or garcinia (Goraka) finely sliced onions are cook in very low heat to…
WATALAPPAN
Watalappan is one of the most famous Sri Lankan dessert. This is originally from Sri Lankan Muslims/Malay people. If you hear someone talking about “Biriyani” probably there must be some Watalappan for dessert. Most people use some spices such as cardamom, cinnamon or nutmeg when they make their watalappan. Or even some vanilla. But I…
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…
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…
CHOCOLATE CRÊPES
Crêpes for breakfast/tea time, it’s always a good idea. I’d already shared classic crêpes with Nutella on my blog and click the link in below to get it. And these chocolate crêpes are more delicious with extra more chocolate spreading. Believe me, spread some spoons of Nutella or any other chocolate cream, fold/roll it up….
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,…
NUTELLA STUFFED FLUFFY PANCAKES
What about some Nutella stuffed fluffy pancakes for morning? Okay…. lil bit Nutella won’t harm you.Quick and easy breaky idea for morning and more delicious with Nutella filling. 1.in a small bowl whisk 1 egg, 2tbs melted butter and 3/4cup milk together. 2.into an another large mixing bowl, sift 1cup flour and 1tbs baking powder….
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Dancing kitchen 