Food is the significant need of any
living being.Without Food, no life will manage.
Food
of Sri Lanka is hot and spicy. Main dish of the island is rice which they
consume with curry both vegetable and fish based. All the dishes are cooked on
the base of coconut milk and flavored by liberal use of spices.Mallung,
Sambol,Kiri hodi,Dhal Lamprais, and Polos
are some popular dishes of Sri Lanka.Sri Lankans also like to have
drinks like tea and coffee.
Rice.
Rice is the main food of the Sri Lankans. Almost
every household in Sri Lanka takes rice and curry as its main meal. Rice too
comes in many varieties such as Samba,Keeri samba,Red Nadu,Red Samba,Nadu Rice,
Kalu Heenati, Suwandel.
Curry.
There are several curry dishes of meat, vegetables
or fish.Coconut milk forms the base of this curry. Fresh herbs and toppings
season these curries. Primary things like chicken,beef, pork, eggs or vegetables
are cooked in a thick sauce of coconut milk with all the fixing
flavors.Vegetarian curries are set up
from extremely accessible natural product or vegetable like brinjals, beans,
beetroot, carrot, banana, pumpkin , and so forth.
Fruits.
Several types of fruits are found in Sri Lanka.
There are fruits like mangoes, pineapple, water melon, papaya, woodapple,
Dooriyan.Some of these fruits are found only in Sri Lanka.
Drinks.
Tea is the most popular drink in sri lanka, Most of
the sri Lankans are tacking ‘Plain Tea’ which means only tea with sugar.
Crushed ginger can add more flavour to it. Some people consumed with sugar and
milk.Sri Lankans also drink coffee, young coconut, king coconut and fresh fruit
juices.
