Sri Lankan Cooking. Wendy Hutton

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      Contents

       Food in Sri Lanka

       One Land, Many Cuisines

       Colonial Tastes

       Banking on Tea

       Dining in Sri Lanka

       The Sri Lankan Kitchen

       Sri Lankan Ingredients

       Basic recipes

       Roasted curry powder

       Unroasted curry powder

       Bitter gourd sambol

       Dried chilli sambol

       Bird’s-eye chilli sambol

       Fresh coconut sambol

       Roasted coconut sambol

       Onion and Maldive fish sambol

       Wing bean sambol

       Babana blossom sambol

       Coconut milk gravy

       Melon ginger sauce

       Saffron lemongrass sauce

       Young jackfruit pickles

       Pickled eggplant

       Rice & bread recipes

       Butter rice

       Coconut milk rice cakes

       Ragi flour flatbreads

       Seasoned coconut and rice flour flatbreads

       Crispy dosai pancakes

       Rice flour hoppers

       String hoppers

       Soups

       Pumpkin soup with prawns

       Tomato soup with fennel

       Rich seafood soup

       Curry leaf congee

       Coconut milk congee

       Seafood dishes

       Spicy fish stew

       Portuguese fishball curry

       Deep-fried battered fish

       Tamarind claypot fish

       Prawns in a coconut curry gravy

       Stir-fried spicy prawns

       Curried prawns

       Curried squid

       Vadai prawn patties

       Coconut curry crabs

       Meat & poultry dishes

       Chicken curry

       Coconut and cashew nut chicken

       Curried meatballs

       Spicy stir-fried lamb

       Lamb curry

       Pork curry

       Royal chicken

       Beef smore

       Vegetable dishes

       Spicy eggplant

       Dhal stew

       Curried cabbage

       Curried okra

       Spicy green beans

       Tangy coconut okra

       Portuguese omelette

       Green mango curry

       Pumpkin curry

       Desserts & drinks

       Topknot cakes

       Coconut cakes

       Coconut cinnamon cashew slices

       Cashew brittle

       Coconut spice cake

       Sweet coconut slices

       Portuguese semolina love cake

       Coconut halva

       Refreshing orange spice cooler

       Pineapple cinnamon cooler

       Acknowledgements

       Index

      Food in Sri Lanka

       Cinnamon, cloves and other spices are the island’s culinary gems

      Sri Lanka, the fabled island of sapphires, rubies and other precious stones, is home to one of the least known Asian cuisines. Rarely found in restaurants outside the island itself, Sri Lankan fare is often mistaken for yet another Indian regional cuisine. To the culinary explorer, however, Sri Lankan food is as intriguing and unique as the many other customs of this island paradise.

      Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is located off India’s southeast coast. The rugged terrain of the central highlands— characterised by high mountains and plateaus, steep river gorges and swathes of tea plantations—dominates much of the island. This falls away to sandy lowlands, rice paddies and long stretches of palm-fringed beaches.

      The


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