Planning a food tour in the paradise island Sri Lanka or are you excited to know what are the best authentic dishes that you should not miss during your stay in Sri Lanka?
Check this guide and find 10 must try dishes that you must add to your experiences.
Kottu
Kottu is known as the signature dish in Sri Lanka, you may find the very much similar in other destinations too, but the taste of the kottu that you get is surely incomparable.
Sri Lanka introduces a lot fast food items to it authentic cuisines. Kottu can say as a fine blend of modernity presented with local taste.
Where and wherever you walk across the bustling streets in this beautiful country you will be hearing a noise of metal clinking in a rhythm and soon as you will invited by its aromatic sensation that will make you feel this delicious meal is right next to you.
Kottu is often find very spicy and we can surely let you know it is one of the foods that will make you feel to try out again.
Lamprais
Lump rice is a packed rice and curry meal that you can enjoy its preserved tastes and freshness by the rapped banana leaf to steam. Lamprais is not originated in Sri Lanka. It is one of the best examples proving that Sri Lankan cuisine is influenced by many cultural practices and norms.
Lump rice is filled with delicious yellow rice and some of the mouthwatering combination of spicy meat curry, chili sauce, fried egg, and another two of curies. Lamprais is enriched with a great variety of spices that helps to improve the taste and freshness of the meal.
During your stay in Sri Lanka don’t forget to taste it.
Sri Lanka style chicken curry
Sri Lankan style chicken curry is the ultimate resemblance of the ideal mix of best herbs and spices grown around the country which is making that you should definitely try out this delicious dish. Depending on the region that taste will be distinctive, yet we can assure you that it will surely appeal your appetite.
Egg hoppers
Egg hoppers are the next that you must add to your list. It is made out of plain hoppers adding a nude egg along with salt and pepper. It is extremely delicious. Make sure you add some spicy sambal or Chile paste to make it tastes more.
String hoppers
One of the most popular delicious breakfasts options that you can try out during your stay in Sri Lanka. It’s kind of a thin noodle together patterned into circle shapes. You can try out string hoppers with fresh coconut sambal, potato curry, dhal curry, fish curry or meat curries.
Coconut Roti
Coconut roti is best known as the one of the hot and spicy savored snack menus as they are often serving with spicy katta sambal or a mouth-watering gravy curry made out of blending fresh fish, chicken with best chosen spices.
If you take a look at the recipe, it so simple to make and that’s why coconut roti is loved by everyone. Pol roti is kind of a flatbread that are mixed with coconut scraps and fine herbs to make it more delicious.
Coconut roti are best to taste as soon as they take from the oven.
Fish Ambul Thiyal
If you are a sea food fan local fish ambul thiyal will be a great option that will give you a unique taste for your regular fish taste.
It tastes a mix of sour and spicy that is surely a mouth watering one. The preparation of fish ambul thiyal also an interesting one to learn. The largely cut fish cubes are sauteed with best chosen spices in the island.
The fish ambul thiyal is one of the best dry curry dishes in Sri Lanka that is mostly used to taste more the rice dishes. The fish ambul thiyal has been firstly introduced by the southern province of the island that are much celebrated for delicious hot and spicy dishes.
Eggplant pickle
Eggplant pickle or known as “Wambatu moju” locally is another one of the must try food during your stay in Sri Lanka. Wambatu moju is a side dish that is adding to flavor rice recipes normally. So to taste Wambatu moju you have to add it to a rice dish.
Wambatu moju is usually known as a festive dish so you will get to see many celebrated occasions in Sri Lanka added as a side curry.
Milk rice
Milk rice is believed as the food that brings fortune. For every festive and auspicious time Sri Lankans will make sure that they will add this royal dish that produces a royal taste with its delicious milky flavors.
Milk rice is a must try dish in Sri Lanka. It is preparing by adding rich amount of fresh coconut milk when the rice is cooked. The amount of thick coconut adding to the rice will decide the taste level of milk rice.
After cooked it is cut into pieces to make it appears a pattern on the dish. As it is known as a heavy food a piece or two will make you feel the tummy is full. Milk rice is usually served with hot and spicy side dishes such as spicy chicken curry, fish curry, katta sambal etc.
Buffalo curd
There are many authentic food practices in Sri Lanka that taste the deserts menus in Sri Lanka. Among that buffalo curd in Sri Lanka is very special and we will let you know why it is so special and something you must try.
Buffalo curd is enriched with so much of nutritious facts and on top of that the perfect blend of sweet, and sour taste will softly melt in your mouth by satisfying your appetite.
Buffalo curds usually serves with the delicious Kithul or coconut treacle that is the best way to taste this delicious food.
The southern east provinces in Sri Lanka are best known for the best buffalo curd.
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Editorial Staff at Ceylon Empire Travels are Specialist in Sri Lanka Travel.
