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SRI-LANKAN FOOD

The people of Sri Sri are very appreciative of their food. Sharing meals with friends and family is very important to them. Local housewives use only fresh and healthful produce to make their own meals. Along with western meals, you can try home-cooked Sri Lankan cuisine.

The most basic meal consists of rice and vegetable curry or chicken curry cooked with coconut milk and spicy ingredients that make it stand out from the crowd. A more elaborate lunch can include an assortment of salads along with a wide variety of curry made with meat, fish, or vegetables. Their differences include taste and hue. It looks like a table set with many coloured bowls.

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It is a tradition in Sri Lanka to have lunch pack made with banana leaves rather than plastic, we encourage our guests to request this eco friendly food packaging when they visit Sri Lanka.

Typical Sri-lankan Lunch served on a banana leaf
What about a snacks?

A quick and easy way to get to know the local foods is to sample them off the street. You can sample a lot of different kinds of food, including fried small fish, pancakes, and veggies that go by less-known names like roti, samosas, Hoppers, and a few others.

Sri-Lankan Cutlets
Sri-Lankan Pan cakes
Sri-Lankan Patties
Sri-Lankan vege Roties
Sri-lankan Vade

          CUTTLETS                          SWEET PANCAKE ROLLS                              PATTIES                                           VEGITABLE ROTI                                     VADAI

What is a Typical Sri-Lankan Breakfast ?

The most well-liked breakfast items in Sri Lanka are bread, hoppers (aapa), kiribath (milk rice), String Hoppers (idi aapa), and pitu.
Aapa can be served with yoghurt and palm syrup, or it can be served with curry or a fried egg on the bottom. Steamed rice flour noodles are called string hoppers. served with curry, sweet coconut filling, or sambol.Rice cooked in coconut milk and served in various ways is called kiribath. Moreover, pittu is a steamed cylindrical cast made of fresh coconut combined with rice flour.

Sri-Lankan Ribbon Sandwiches
Sri-Lankan Roast Pann (bread)
Sri-lankan Pol Roti
Sri-Lankan Appa
Sri-Lankan String Hoppers

       RIBON SANDWICHES                                      BREAD                                  ROTI                                           EGG  HOPPERS                         STRING HOPPERS

What about Fruits?  Taste  your favorite tropical treats......

Sri Lanka cultivates an abundance of tropical delicacies that are rarely found outside of Asia. Sri Lanka is a fruit lover's dream come true. Numerous native fruit varieties can be found on the island.

Sri-Lankan Mango
Sri-Lanka Avacardo
Sr-lanka Bananas (8 types)
Sri-Lanka Kashu
Sri-Lanka - Kurumba (Coconut Drink)
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