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Traditional Sri Lankan rice and curry. Sri Lankan cuisine is known for its particular combinations of herbs, spices, fish, vegetables, rices, and fruits. The cuisine is highly centered around many varieties of rice, as well as coconut which is a ubiquitous plant throughout the country. Seafood also plays a significant role in the cuisine, be it ...
Thakkadi (தக்கடி) is a Sri Lankan food. The dish consists of rice balls or dumplings covered in a sauce and cooked in a mutton salna, [2] (a spicy gravy). Thakkadi originated from the Moor community in Sri Lanka. [2] [3]
Jaffna crab curry (Sinhala: යාපනය කකුළු ව්යංජනය, Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாண நண்டு கறி), also known as Sri Lankan crab curry or Kakuluwo curry, is a traditional spicy crab curry.
Spicy, sour, sweet. Although people assume that Sri Lankan food is spicy, it’s made up of many other spices and herbs besides chili. Coriander seeds, black pepper, mustard seeds, nutmeg ...
Kiribath is an essential dish in Sri Lankan cuisine. It is very commonly served for breakfast on the first day of each month and also has the added significance of being eaten for any auspicious moment throughout one's lifetime which are marking times of transition. [2] [3] It is one of the more renowned traditional dishes in Sri Lanka. [4]
Pol sambol (Sinhala: පොල් සම්බෝල), or thenkai sambal (Tamil: தேங்காய் சம்பல்), is a traditional Sri Lankan dish made from coconut, mostly used as an accompaniment with rice, string hoppers, hoppers and curries.
Kiri Aluwa (Sinhala: කිරි ටොෆී), also known as milk toffee or kiri toffee, is a popular traditional Sri Lankan soft toffee. [1] [2]These soft caramelised milk confectionery come in the shape of little squares, whose size varies according to tradition.
It is generally thought to have originated as street food in the eastern province of Sri Lanka in the 1960s/1970s, as an inexpensive meal for the lower socio-economic classes. The basic roti is made of Gothamba flour , a wheat flour made out of a variety of grains-referring to the white flour, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] also known as wheat roti or gothamba ...