Spices are at the heart of Sri Lankan cooking, and it takes a deft cook to know which combination of spices (and how to prepare them) will allow the dish to sing.
Chef Peter Kuruvita shows how to perfect a king’s chicken curry and lime pickle, while O Tama Carey shows how it’s done with her recipes for crab curry, black braised beef brisket and cabbage mallung. And don’t skip out on that dhal recipe – it’s possibly the best of its kind.
Here our are best Sri Lankan recipes to try.
Flying Fish’s fish curry with coconut sambal
Egg hoppers with green sambol and coconut gravy
Sri Lankan snapper curry with basmati rice and yoghurt
O Tama Carey’s pipis with bay leaves and gentle curry sauce
O Tama Carey’s fried eggs with seeni sambol, coconut and turmeric
