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Koonisso Mallum – A Sri Lankan Shrimp recipe
Sri Lanka is just your typical, ordinary island in the sun. We drink coconuts out of the tree and eat seafood right off the ocean, wear coconut leaves around our waist and dance to folk songs on the...
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Bolo D’Amor – The Portuguese origin of the Sri Lankan Love Cake
With the Valentine’s Day looming in the horizon (braise yourselves for the overly commercialized season of sugary frivolousness), I thought I should celebrate my love for food this February. And what...
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Sinhala and Tamil New Year – Greet Avurudu with Sri Lankan food
Everything’s in bloom! With the approach of April and the dawn of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, it seems as though nature itself is preparing to welcome the festive season. Avurudu falls on the 14th...
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Say hello to the Sri Lankan Lamprais!
Let me talk to you about Lamprais. The wonderfully smelling parcel that comes to you beautifully wrapped in charred banana leaf is not just one dish, but the loving collaboration of many very special...
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Classic Chocolate Biscuit Pudding
I was just floating along the aisles of the Vijitha Yapa recently when I came across this rather unimpressive looking book that looked like any other cookbook written by one of the various self...
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Stuffed Banana Peppers (Deep Fried Maalu Miris)
As a child, everything overwhelmed my senses. Smell, taste, touch, a moving piece of prose, poetry or music, you could say that I was a hypersensitive. (I still am to a certain extent but society and...
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Sri Lankan Prawn Curry
It’s about time. Really, I have absolutely no idea I took SO long to write about the world famous Sri Lankan prawn curry. This here is hand down, one of the best culinary creations that we Sri Lankans...
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Sri Lankan Pork Bistek
If you’ve been following my blog, chances are that you are already well aware of my love for pork. In my book, chicken is the most boring meat on planet earth in the history of mankind, beef slightly...
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Amma’s Sri Lankan Bread Pudding
It would be fair to say that I got this passion for cooking from my mother’s side of the family. Hailing from the south coast of the island, from my grandmother to my aunts and my mother, I come from a...
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Mackerel and Egg Pastries
I’m not a fish eater. As silly as it sounds, I hate the fishy in the fish. But strangely though, I seem to just adore these mackerel and egg parcels. Flaky, buttery crust enveloping the strong...
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