do you have any favourite Sri Lankan dishes?

I'm gonna get a recipe book from the library tomorrow

oops. Wrong country.
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Imago said:

Hmmmm when we were there we had lots of yummy stuff but not sure what any of it was called.

We had the best fresh picked, roasted cashews. The locals set up small wooden stands by the roads and sell them.
The charge you by the nut. They were sooooo good!


wrong nut
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cashews

Imago said:

Wrong country but.....a lot of Sri Lankan food tastes very similar to Thai food.
In fact, India and Sri Lanka have had some influence on Thailand when it comes to their alphabet, which is in some ways based on the Indian letters, and they use a lot of ingredients that came from India and Sri Lanka. A lot of coconut cream, different curries, curry leaves, things like matsaman curry dishes and so on.

And I saw a lot of Indian people in Thailand, don´t know if they live there permanently or were just visiting.

ZombieKitten said:

My favorite dish would be pacoras....even though that´s not really a meal but a snack....very dry and crisp even though it´s deepfried.
It is greasy but you don´t really feel the grease.

I think it´s made of chickpea flour dough, fried in peanut oil. I also like those deepfried poppadums but, to be honest, most of their really tasty snacks are just too greasy and oily for me.

And I like their curry dishes. A lot of their dishes are very reminiscent of Indian food.

MrsMdiver said:

That sounds funny in so many ways.

KoolEaze said:

so nobody else ever had any? liked it?

I had a surgeon in NY who did my biopsy and removed a non-cancerous lump from my breast from Sri Lanka.

angel345 said:

your breast is from Sri Lanka?



my geography teacher in 7th grade was from there too, he had a closed mouth laugh that sounded like Darth Vader.

ZombieKitten said:

You're funny, ZK

angel345 said:

I have a friend (friend of a friend, actually) who is from Sri Lanka and made a fabulous homemade dinner of multiple curry dishes one night for a birthday party. It was heaven.

Efan said:

I like to do that too it's awesome to have a choice of different stuff

ZombieKitten said:

I don't think I've had Sri Lankan food before

Not sure if there are even any restaurants in my city where I could taste some

thekidsgirl said:

well, ever since I posted this thread and didn't find a cookbook yet, I've been cooking Indian nearly every night, like 2-3 dishes each night so YUM!

ZombieKitten said:

I am trying to get our mutual friend to get us all together (in the hopes that I can eventually just skip the middle man and be direct friends with this genius Sri Lankan cook). Her mix of curry, veggies, fruits, sauces, etc. was just amazing. Whenever there was anything spicy, there was a perfect complement to offset it. I've never had a meal like that. I loved it even more because it was just a meal she had learned to make while cooking along with her mother and grandmother. The best chefs make it so seemingly effortless.

I wish I had recipes to share, but if I ever accomplish my goal of becoming better friends with her, I will try to get some.

Efan said:

that would be awesome!