Food in Sri Lanka. The best 6 dishes

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Sri Lankan food is considered one of the spiciest foods in the world. This is because the country is a land of spices. Read on now to learn about Sinhalese cuisine and bring your taste experience home with a recipe.

Culinary food

In Sri Lanka, curry is the national dish and is often served with rice. Accordingly, you will find at least one curry dish on every menu. The curry is available in a variety of versions and adapted exactly to your taste.

The curry spice blend from Sri Lanka consists of chili, cumin, coriander, fennel, fenugreek, cardamon, a touch of cinnamon and cloves. 

These curries can be divided into 3 different types: the black curry, slightly spicy, the red curry, hot, and the white slightly milder, curry. 

However, this dish is not the only one that represents the spicy, colorful and varied cuisine of Sri Lanka. Also recommended are: 

Kottu Rotti

An absolute street food highlight on your adventure trip. It is a bread salad. The salad consists of Godamba Roti, the bread and is served with vegetables, eggs, chicken or other meat. The highlight is rather spicy / hot and is perfect for vegetarians. 

Lamprais 

Lamprais is a traditional lunch. You are presented with vegetables, sambal (a chili paste often used as a seasoning sauce), eggs and rice on warm banana leaves, as you wish and as you like. 

Hoppers

This dish is a classic breakfast in Sri Lanka. Under Hoppers you can imagine a kind of pancake, but made of rice. Hoppers are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. So an absolute delicacy for your palate! 

Polos

The typical polo is a curry dish made from jackfruit. Due to the fact that the jackfruit resembles a meaty consistency, this dish is ideal for vegetarians or vegans. Polos is prepared with coconut milk. So if you like the slightly nutty and sweet taste of a coconut, this is exactly what we recommend. 

Wambatu Moju

Wambatu Moju is fried or roasted eggplant in a spicy sweet and sour sauce. It is similar to pickled eggplants that you may know from home. It is traditionally served with rice, as with almost every dish, or you are so hungry that you eat it right away with a curry as a side dish.

Now that you've read through breakfast, lunch and dinner and you're craving something sweet after so many dishes, last but not least, here's my fruit tip to you: 

Your taste adventure with passion fruit

You can enjoy the sweet taste of a fresh passion fruit on your tongue. You can recognize the sweet taste by the purple colored skin and the wrinkled skin. But beware: sometimes you get a very sour passion fruit. 

Jackfruit. The taste explosion for sweeties

If you like it even sweeter and want a guarantee of sweetness, then try the Jackfruit. In terms of taste, the fruit is comparable to the well-known Juicy Fruit chewing gums from Wrigley's. Jackfruit consists of individual fruit chambers. The fruit chambers are the part of the fruit that you can eat. From the outside, the fruit resembles a large, green and oval-spiked ball. This is often confused with the well-known stinky fruit durian.

Now that your taste buds are fully activated, you can look forward to Instagram inform about other kitchens, or your adventure prepare directly.

While you're preparing and planning your adventure, why not try Sinhalese cuisine at home before experiencing your flavorful delights live and in color? Here is a traditional curry dish from Sri Lanka:

Step 1: Marinate the chicken or your vegetarian option in a curry spice mixture and then refrigerate for about an hour. 

Step 2: After an hour, the marinated version, along with a stick of cinnamon, fry.

Step 3: Now continue to simmer for 10 minutes in the liquid produced during cooking.

Step 4: Add the coconut milk and simmer for another 15 minutes. Finally, serve traditionally with rice and fully enjoy your Sri Lanka Adventure plan. 

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