Rice and curry

The central feature of Sri Lankan cuisine is boiled or steamed rice, served with a curry of fish or meat, along with other curries made with vegetables, lentils, or fruits. Dishes are accompanied by pickled fruits or vegetables, chutneys, and sambols.

Kiribath – Milk rice

Kiribath is a traditional dish that is usually eaten for breakfast. The rice is cooked with coconut milk instead of water, and is accompanied by sweet jaggery, a particular type of cane sugar, and lunumiris, a spice made out of chopped onions and chilli flakes. This dish is usually made for special occasions, like Sri Lankan New Year, birthdays and anniversaries.

Kottu

Considered a street food, this dish is extremely popular in Sri Lanka and has several variations with various meats and cheeses. Kottu is made out of shredded Gothammba Rotti — pictured below — to which egg, vegetables, meat and curry are added and mixed together. The sound of kottu being made has its own sort of drumbeat as the ingredients are mixed and broken apart with two long rectangular knives beating against the grill.

Appa – Hoppers

Hoppers are made from rice flour and coconut-milk-based batter which is fried on a special type of wok called an appa thachchi. Its design gives the hopper its shape, making it soft in the middle and crunchy on the rim. There are plain hoppers and egg hoppers, which are accompanied by lunimiris.

Idiappa – String Hoppers

String Hoppers are made out of a thicker rice-flour-based batter which is pushed through a round, flat, perforated nozzle. It falls out like streamers and is guided into circles which are then steamed. String Hoppers are accompanied by pol sambol — a type of spiced dessicated coconut — parripu, dhal and fish or chicken curry.

What is Sri Lankan pol roti?

Sri Lankan Pol roti is basically flatbread with coconut, it has inclusions such as chopped red onion and chilli. You can also make it plain but the inclusions make it really tasty and gives a good crunch.

We as Sri Lankans eat pol roti a lot for breakfast, but you can definitely eat it for lunch and dinner as well. because it’s very easy to make it is definitely an easy dish to whip up in the morning.

Sri Lankan cuisine is full of spices to tantalize your taste buds. With an average price of just $1-2 for a huge meal, Sri Lanka is a food playground where you can sample amazing cuisine.

king coconut.

No component of Sri Lankan food is more vital than that holy coconut. In Sri Lanka there are many varieties of this special fruit, including the orange colored king coconut.

woodapple juice

Despite the looks of this wonder fruit, woodapple juice in Sri Lanka is wildly popular – and I’ll be first to admit that it tastes pretty good when it’s blended up with some sugar!

curd

In India, curd is often eaten with rice or mixed with something; In Sri Lanka curd is devoured drizzled with kithul treacle – syrup made from liquid jaggery.

Sea food

A variety of aquatic items, such as octopus, fish, shrimp, lobsters, mussels, scallops, oysters, and more, are chilling on ice. Foods like shrimp, salmon, and lobster are frequently referred to as "seafood." Clams, cockles, sea snails, mussels, and scallops are mollusks.