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Sri Lankan cuisine is known for its particular combinations of herbs, spices, fish, vegetables, rices, and fruits. The cuisine is highly centered around many varieties of rice, as well as coconut which is a ubiquitous plant throughout the country. Seafood also plays a significant role in the cuisine, be it fresh fish or preserved fish.
Lamprais, also spelled "lumprice", "lampraise" or "lumprais", is a Sri Lankan dish that was introduced by the country's Dutch Burgher population. [1] [2] Lamprais is an Anglicised derivative of the Dutch word lomprijst, [3] which loosely translated means a packet or lump of rice, and it is also believed the dish has roots in the Indonesia dish lemper.
It is generally thought to have originated as street food in the eastern province of Sri Lanka in the 1960s/1970s, as an inexpensive meal for the lower socio-economic classes. The basic roti is made of Gothamba flour , a wheat flour made out of a variety of grains-referring to the white flour, [ 14 ] [ 15 ] also known as wheat roti or gothamba ...
Aasmi. Aasmi ( Sinhala: ආස්මී) is a traditional Sri Lankan deep-fried sweet snack, which is served on Aluth Avurudda / Puthandu (the Sinhalese / Tamil New Years ), weddings and birthdays. [1] [2] [3] It is made with a combination rice flour and coconut milk, which is mixed with juice extracted from davul kurundu leaves (cinnamon ...
Kiribath ( Sinhala: කිරිබත්) is a traditional Sri Lankan dish made from rice. It is prepared by cooking rice with coconut milk, hence this name, and can be considered a form of rice cake or rice pudding. [1] Kiribath is an essential dish in Sri Lankan cuisine. It is very commonly served for breakfast on the first day of each month ...
Pol sambol ( Sinhala: පොල් සම්බෝල ), or thenkai sambal ( Tamil: தேங்காய் சம்பல் ), is a traditional Sri Lankan dish made from coconut, mostly used as an accompaniment with rice, string hoppers, hoppers and curries. [1] [2] It is a coconut relish, consisting of freshly grated coconut, shallots ...
Spicy, sour, sweet. Although people assume that Sri Lankan food is spicy, it’s made up of many other spices and herbs besides chili. Coriander seeds, black pepper, mustard seeds, nutmeg ...
Breudher, also known as Brueder or Bloeder (pronounced as broo-dhuh ), is a traditional Sri Lankan Dutch Burgher buttery yeast cake, baked in a fluted mould. [1] [2] [3] A variation, Bleuda, Kueh Bleuda or Kue Bludder is also found in the Malacca Dutch Eurasian community and in Kochi, a city in the south-west of India. [4]