Sri Lankan Cuisine

The very famous Sri Lankan cuisine dates back with the influence of colonists and foreign traders that came to the country many years ago. Their cuisine mostly consists of rice which is their staple food and meals that are full of spices and other tasty ingredients. Rice and curry are the well known dish for a regular meal.

Their famous cuisines consist of rice that is either steamed or boiled served with curry powder. Another way they serve their rice is with fish-based dishes and other kinds of meat together with the curry powder. This is an all in one meal with the rice and other dishes being cooked together as one.

The curry, being a regular and famous spice of Sri Lanka also is mixed with vegetables and other meat products which they sauté together with oils and pickles.

There is also a famous dish that is the "mallung" which are chopped leaves cooked with grated coconut meat and red onions. Coconuts are used regularly by the Sri Lankan to give their meals a distinguished and unique taste.

The Sri Lankan are also fond with sweets and make several dessert meals. There is the "Wattalapan" which is a steamed pudding that is mixed with coconut milk, together with eggs and a solidified extract from the kitul palm. This is very well known dessert in Sri Lanka and is pretty delicious and mouth watering. Another sweet delectable is the "kavun", which is made from green gram that is a sort of ground paste that are shaped like diamonds and then fried in oils. During some occasions like the Tamil New Year, lots of sweets are being cooked by the locals.

There is also the sort of meal the Sri Lankan called the "short eats" which a variety of snacks that can be found in restaurants and fast food chains along Sri Lanka. This includes Chinese rolls, patties, fish cutlets and others.

There are so many other Sri Lankan meals that are truly delectable and mouth-watering that everyone will surely love to try. Everyone is free to try out some of the best Sri Lankan cuisine once they come to the country and have a taste of a true Sri Lankan living. One will be very satisfied with what they can try here is Sri Lanka.

Rice & Curry

Boiled rice with curried vegetable, fish and/or meat laced with Sri Lankan spices is the typical Sri Lankan main meal, a gourmet’s delight. It is served for both lunch and dinner and some do have it for breakfast too. Curries are usually made hot but can be mellowed to suit the pallet. Rice and Curry is served for lunch and dinner. Boiled or steamed rice with a variety of curries, salads, sambols, pappadam and chutney form the meal. Spices are added to make the dishes more delectable. The unaccustomed may sometimes find the curries too hot but, this is easily controlled by reducing the quantities of spices used, specially chilli and pepper, to suit the different tastes. Everything is brought to the table at once and there are no separate courses as in a Western style meal. It is perfectly correct to take a little of everything and taste it against the neutral rice. On special occasions yellow rice is cooked in coconut milk and delicately flavored with spices. Turmeric is added to give the rice a bright yellow. It is served garnished with cashews raisins, and hard-boiled eggs.