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Tag: Sri Lanka
Awara Mallung
When Fahim’s parents come for a visit, they sometimes bring things with them, usually food items of one description or another. It might be sweets like muscat or jellabies, or fruit from their trees like mango or papaya. Sometimes, it’s green chillies or other vegetables. This last visit? Awara. Awara look a bit like snap …
Sri Lankan Rich Cake
Rich Cake is another variety of fruit cake (or, as I would call it, Christmas fruit cake :)) that is commonly served at weddings and at Christmas in Sri Lanka. Since I’d recently made a coconut fruit cake, Fahim had been begging me to make a Rich Cake. So I did. 😀 Here it is …
Breakfast Tempered Chickpeas
I honestly didn’t think of eating chickpeas for breakfast, but then, I previously hadn’t considered eating mung beans for breakfast, and yet mung beans work well for breakfast – Fahim loves it. … Well, to be honest, I didn’t realize at first that Fahim’s mom intended the chickpeas to be for breakfast. … That, and I think it might be because someone pointed it out to me. 😀 Tempered Chickpeas Serves 4-5 Ingredients 2-3 tablespoons oil 1 small onion, sliced 1 sprig curry leaves 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds 2 teaspoons crushed red chilli peppers OR 5 dried red chillies, broken into pieces 1 – 1 1/2 teaspoon salt 300 grams dried chickpeas, cooked and drained (or about 600 grams cooked chickpeas) 200 grams coconut, freshly shredded (optional) Directions Put the oil into a hot pot.
Sri Lankan Garlic’d Cabbage Leaves
A month and a half back, Fahim and I were returning home when we saw this truck. … Cuz I really don’t think we’re in an alternate universe right now, you know? As it turns out, we got our answer when the car we were in passed the truck.
Mama Farook’s Sri Lankan Tamarind Fish Curry
Among the recipes Fahim’s mom taught me is this Tamarind Fish Curry. It’s spicy, a little bit sour (from the tamarind), and absolutely delish. This is one of my all-time favourite ways to eat fish. Mama Farook’s Sri Lankan Tamarind Fish Curry Ingredients 2 tablespoons tamarind paste 2 teaspoons red chilli pepper powder* 1/2 teaspoon …
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Bread Trishaw!
We have a neighborhood bread trishaw. We also have neighborhood ice cream trishaws. 🙂 This bread trishaw goes through our neighborhood, and others, playing an annoying tune that everyone recognizes as belonging to the bread trishaw. Those who want to buy bread run out to the road with rupees in hand and buy… whatever. I …
Everything you ever needed to know about coconut scrapers
Well, mostly, anyway. 🙂 Being a Canadian, I didn’t know that coconut scrapers were called coconut scrapers – I would have called them shredders or something else, but coconut scraper it is, at least in this part of the world. 🙂 After all, how many coconuts did I ever buy when I lived in Canada? …
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Ayurvedic Cough Syrup for Dry Coughs
I wrote this entry back in August 2007 but didn’t get around to posting it. I have no idea why. Laziness on my part? Probably. Lousy memory? Absolutely. Anyway, here it is. An Ayurvedic cough syrup with no medicinal ingredients to cause side effects, safe for just about anybody, that tastes good and actually works. …
Kiri Aluwa – Sri Lankan Milk Toffee
Except that Fahim tells me that no one calls it kiri aluwa, apparently. Ah well. 🙂 This is a sweet that I encountered very soon after I came here. And as usual with most sweets, I adore it. 🙂 In the past, we’ve bought it from the grocery store. Milk toffee usually comes in a …