Must Try Foods in Sri Lanka

Some Ceylonese cuisine particular to my community

Lamprais





Frikadells



Breudher



Love cake



bibikkan

Soulspeek said:

Just change some names and you cant differentiate between Kerala n Sri Lankan dishes.

Best of the lot is Idiappams with spicy egg curry.

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Hoppers and string hoppers do have connections to Kerala.. Not just cuisine but there are many other cultural similarities

ShreddeR said:

why, do you want to taste.

9. Coconut Roti
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10. Koththu Roti (Chicken/ Egg/ Beef/ Cheese)
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koththu parotta ...tamil, sinhala and english mix

ShreddeR said:

From the Jackfruit (curry),
19. Kiri Kos Maluwa
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20. Polos Maluwa
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21. Kos Mallum
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Are all these dishes made from Jackfruit as i have a Jackfruit tree & love it but never tried it curried ?

Dont know why but Sri Lanka seems to be more similar to Kerala instead of Tamil Nadu which is closer!

I love food....Any food so long as they are vegetarians, chicken and fish only. @ShreddeR , I think the names are different regarding pronunciation, but the raw material/ingredients are same and the shapes and sizes are different from Kerala/Tamil Nadu??
@Gibbs
Can we have some knowledge about the street foods in SriLanka? As a tourist when I go to a new place, I search for good street food.

no burriyani ?

Gibbs said:

Some Ceylonese cuisine particular to my community

Lamprais

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Frikadells

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Breudher

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Love cake

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bibikkan

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Hoppers and string hoppers do have connections to Kerala.. Not just cuisine but there are many other cultural similarities

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nice pics Gibbs, is there any dutch influence on your cuisine? Frikadel seems similar to Frikandel(do u also have bitter ballen, crocketjes etc.)

ShreddeR said:

It may have some influence due to proximity but not at all

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Looks like lot of similarities...
In Kerala..
kiri bath-vattayappam
Rice and curry-chorum kootanum..
sour fish curry-puli meen kootaan.
potato curry-uzhula kizhangu curry.
crab curry-njandu curry.
hoppers-appam
string hopper-idiappam,noolappam.
Achcharu-Achcharu
Pittu-Puttu
Coconut rotti-Orotti
koththu rotti-koththu parotta.
Thosai-Dhosha
pani walalu-murukku.
kokis-achchappam...
Helapa-ila ada..

ShreddeR said:

It may have some influence due to proximity but not at all

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Looks like lot of similarities...
In Kerala..
kiri bath-vattayappam
Rice and curry-chorum kootanum..
sour fish curry-puli meen kootaan.
potato curry-uzhula kizhangu curry.
crab curry-njandu curry.
hoppers-appam
string hopper-idiappam,noolappam.
Achcharu-Achcharu
Pittu-Puttu
Coconut rotti-Orotti
koththu rotti-koththu parotta.
Thosai-Dhosha
pani walalu-murukku.
kokis-achchappam...
Helapa-ila ada..

thesolar65 said:

I love food....Any food so long as they are vegetarians, chicken and fish only. @ShreddeR , I think the names are different regarding pronunciation, but the raw material/ingredients are same and the shapes and sizes are different from Kerala/Tamil Nadu??
@Gibbs
Can we have some knowledge about the street foods in SriLanka? As a tourist when I go to a new place, I search for good street food.

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Sinhalese food is undeniably influenced by Kerala cuisine or vise versa

As far as i know Sri Lanka does not have a great street food scene like India and South East Asian countries do.. (The best imo)..

These are some of the stuff i recall

The most staple street food is the famous Kotthu roti.. There is even a song about it as @ChennaiDude had posted above..



Various kinds of pan rolls



Prawn Vadai



A lot of Malay food like Satay's and Nasi goreng etc..





Maalu Paan

khujliwal said:

nice pics Gibbs, is there any dutch influence on your cuisine? Frikadel seems similar to Frikandel(do u also have bitter ballen, crocketjes etc.)

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Yes very much..

But most food have been localized over the years.. Like kroketjes are known as pan rolls or Chinese rolls these days and Bitter ballen as cutlets etc.. But the community do try to keep some of the recipes and names as authentic as possible

I have even seen certain people selling Lamprais as "lump rice"

Even kokis and Aasmi that @ShreddeR posted as Sinhalese food is actually influenced by the Dutch

abjktu said:

Looks like lot of similarities...
In Kerala..
kiri bath-vattayappam
Rice and curry-chorum kootanum..
sour fish curry-puli meen kootaan.
potato curry-uzhula kizhangu curry.
crab curry-njandu curry.
hoppers-appam
string hopper-idiappam,noolappam.
Achcharu-Achcharu
Pittu-Puttu
Coconut rotti-Orotti
koththu rotti-koththu parotta.
Thosai-Dhosha
pani walalu-murukku.
kokis-achchappam...
Helapa-ila ada..

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Most yeah but few are not the same

Like Kokis, Murukku and especially the Sour fish curry (Ambul Thiyal) which is distinctively Sri Lankan.. South coast to be precise

gau8av said:

no burriyani ?

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Oh we have biriyani Biriyani might have come from india/Pakistan, now Lankans luv it!

abjktu said:

Looks like lot of similarities...
In Kerala..
kiri bath-vattayappam
Rice and curry-chorum kootanum..
sour fish curry-puli meen kootaan.
potato curry-uzhula kizhangu curry.
crab curry-njandu curry.
hoppers-appam
string hopper-idiappam,noolappam.
Achcharu-Achcharu
Pittu-Puttu
Coconut rotti-Orotti
koththu rotti-koththu parotta.
Thosai-Dhosha
pani walalu-murukku.
kokis-achchappam...
Helapa-ila ada..


Looks like lot of similarities...
In Kerala..
kiri bath-vattayappam
Rice and curry-chorum kootanum..
sour fish curry-puli meen kootaan.
potato curry-uzhula kizhangu curry.
crab curry-njandu curry.
hoppers-appam
string hopper-idiappam,noolappam.
Achcharu-Achcharu
Pittu-Puttu
Coconut rotti-Orotti
koththu rotti-koththu parotta.
Thosai-Dhosha
pani walalu-murukku.
kokis-achchappam...
Helapa-ila ada..

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Do you have milk rice in Kerala? I though only we eat it...
In Sinhala cuisine mainly we eat rice, rice and rice...and we have a BIG variety of curries (we call them hodi) to accompany them

abjktu said:

Looks like lot of similarities...
In Kerala..
kiri bath-vattayappam
Rice and curry-chorum kootanum..
sour fish curry-puli meen kootaan.
potato curry-uzhula kizhangu curry.
crab curry-njandu curry.
hoppers-appam
string hopper-idiappam,noolappam.
Achcharu-Achcharu
Pittu-Puttu
Coconut rotti-Orotti
koththu rotti-koththu parotta.
Thosai-Dhosha
pani walalu-murukku.
kokis-achchappam...
Helapa-ila ada..


Looks like lot of similarities...
In Kerala..
kiri bath-vattayappam
Rice and curry-chorum kootanum..
sour fish curry-puli meen kootaan.
potato curry-uzhula kizhangu curry.
crab curry-njandu curry.
hoppers-appam
string hopper-idiappam,noolappam.
Achcharu-Achcharu
Pittu-Puttu
Coconut rotti-Orotti
koththu rotti-koththu parotta.
Thosai-Dhosha
pani walalu-murukku.
kokis-achchappam...
Helapa-ila ada..

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where did you get those translations? I think halapa and ila ada are different. We have both ada and halapa....
The reason for similaries between kerala and SL cuisine are mainly coconut, portugese influence for both, coastal region, and of course immigration between the two

ChennaiDude said:

koththu parotta ...tamil, sinhala and english mix

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Here is another popular song with a must watch video. I don't think, you have heard it before.
Koththu Rotiya- Nihal Nelson

Not a song on Kotthu parotta (roti), but a song using it

Saradiel said:

Oh we have biriyani Biriyani might have come from india/Pakistan, now Lankans luv it!


Do you have milk rice in Kerala? I though only we eat it...
In Sinhala cuisine mainly we eat rice, rice and rice...and we have a BIG variety of curries (we call them hodi) to accompany them


where did you get those translations? I think halapa and ila ada are different. We have both ada and halapa....
The reason for similaries between kerala and SL cuisine are mainly coconut, portugese influence for both, coastal region, and of course immigration between the two

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small error...
kiri bath -Paal kanji(milk rice)
watalappam-vattappam...
yes,we do eat milk rice..Rice and Rice dishes are part and parcel of our culture,specially Puttu(traditional and most favorite dish of Malayalis)..
Ours cusine is a blend of indigenous Kerala +Arabic/Hebrew/Persian+Colonial....
yes,you are right in the use of coconut and coconut milk in both Kerala and srilankan dishes..

TejasMk3 said:

Not a song on Kotthu parotta (roti), but a song using it

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You had already stolen our appam and idiappam..now looking for our porotta??

TejasMk3 said:

Not a song on Kotthu parotta (roti), but a song using it

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