Sri Lankan recipes
7 Sri Lankan recipes for a home kitchen, from 10 minutes. Have some of the ingredients already? Match them to what you have.
Dinner
25 min
Sri Lankan · dinner
Sri Lankan-style devilled prawns
Seared prawns tossed with crunchy bell pepper and red onion in a glossy, sweet-sour sauce with a chile kick. A fast stir-fry that suits rice.
30 min
Sri Lankan · dinner
Parippu (Sri Lankan dhal curry)
Creamy red lentils cooked with coconut milk, turmeric and a curry-leaf mustard-seed tempering.
40 min
Sri Lankan · dinner
Chicken kottu roti
Sri Lankan street food of chopped flatbread stir-fried with curried chicken, egg, cabbage and leeks.
60 min
Sri Lankan · dinner
Sri Lankan chicken curry
Spicy chicken curry with roasted curry powder, pandan, curry leaves and coconut milk.
Lunch & snacks
Breakfast
15 min
Sri Lankan · breakfast
Maldivian tuna and coconut breakfast
A Maldivian breakfast of flaked canned tuna mixed with grated coconut, lime, red onion and green chile. It is bright, a little spicy and ready in about fifteen minutes.
60 min
Sri Lankan · breakfast
Hoppers (appa)
Bowl-shaped fermented rice and coconut pancakes, lacy and crisp at the edges with a soft center—add an egg for egg hoppers.
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