It's almost two months now since I spent a fortnight in Sri Lanka. I wanted to go somewhere for a food experience and I well and truly got one. By staying in small guest houses and travelling around on local transport I felt I got a truly authentic experience.
Rice and curry is sort of the national dish and although I had this almost every night, not one meal was the same as the next. I was always given a big plate of rice but it was the accompanying curries which varied so much. Six or seven curries was the standard fare well as pappadums. Usually one curry was a meat or seafood dish : chicken, fish, prawn, crab, cuttlefish. The rest were delicious vegetable curries using eggplants, cabbage, spinach, jackfruit, tomato, beans, banana flower, sour mango,soy, carrot lentil dhal, and some vegetables which I didn't recognise. The curries were nicely spicy, not too hot and made with freshly made coconut milk.
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| Mrs Siva's Crab curry in Kalkudah |
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| Mrs Will's Rice and curry in Ella |
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| Mama's cuttlefish curry in Galle |
And what better to accompany the meal - take your pick of fresh juices from mango,papaya,lime ,banana,pineapple,King coconut.
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More Kalkudah curry from Mrs Siva
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| Fish curry in Unawatuna |
