Thursday, April 5, 2012

Sri Lankan Cooking - Try your hand at it.

Want to try your hand at cooking. Here are two recipes from Sri Lanka. Hope you are successful in your efforts.
Jack Curry - 'Polos'
Recipe

Tender Jak........................................... 250G
Saffron powder.................................... 1 teaspoon
Roasted 'curry and chillie' powder........ 1 dessert spoon
Coconut milk........................................ 3 cups from half a large coconut

Roast dark and ground fine the following
Scraped coconut.................................. 1 dessert spoonful
Rice...................................................... 1 dessert spoonful
Curry leaves...........................................1 sprig

Salt water...............................................4 1/2 dessert spoonfuls
Vinegar...................................................1 dessert spoonful
Maldive fish.............................................1 dessert spoonful
Goraka.....................................................2 pieces
Cinnamon................................................1 small piece

To temper
Curry leaves............................................A sprig
Dill seeds.................................................1/2 spoon
Coconut oil..............................................2 dessert spoons
Lime........................................................1/2
Roasted curry powder..............................1 dessert spoon

Preparation
Cut the tender jak with the skin in large pieces. Boil well with sufficient water to cover. Cut off the skin and center after boiling and cut the remaining into 1" cubes. Mix in all the ingredients (other than the roasted curry powder, coconut oil, curry leaves, dill seeds and red onion). When mixture is ready, temper it with the coconut oil, dill seeds, curry leaves and red onions. Cover and cook on a low fire. Stir occasionally when cooking. When sufficiently cooked, remove from fire and spread the curry powder and cover.


Fish buns

Recipe

For the dough
Wheat flour............ 500Gms
Salt
Yeast.......................1 teaspoonful
Sugar......................1 tablespoonful

For the Filling - Mash it up
Boiled Fish or salmon
Boiled Potatoes
Black pepper

Preparation
Sieve the flour. Mix the sugar, yeast, salt and water to make the dough. Knead and mix it well. Cover the prepared dough with a wet cloth and leave it for about 8 hours to ferment and rise. At the end of the 8 hours make small balls with the prepared dough. Flatten the balls of dough and insert the prepared filling and cover with the dough keeping the filling in the center. Beat some egg white and brush the top of the buns with some of the beating. Switch on the oven and let it heat up to 250 degrees Centigrade. Insert the buns on tray inside the oven. Bake at 250 degrees Centigrade for 15 mins. Check that they are baked well and remove from the oven.



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