Sri Lanka, food, food and more food

Hi,

Sri Lanka is my housemate’s boyfriend’s heritage and background, as a result I got to put my feet up and have the meal prepared by a proper Sri Lankan tonight. The recipes were authentic but there were a lot of recipes (and we will be eating Sri Lankan for a month). The recipes are as follows:

500g diced beef

250g green beans

250g red lentils

Mustard seeds

Curry leaves

3 potatoes

Curry powder

2 Onions

5 cloves garlic

Preparation:

Chop Onion (1 or 2) and garlic (4-6 cloves) (onion into rings, garlic as fine as possible)

Dice the beef (500g) and potato (2-3) (2cm cubes roughly)

Boil 2 L of water in kettle.

Wash 3 cups of lentils 3 times

Chop tomato into 8ths.

Chop green beans (4-5cm long).

Beef curry (1 hour)

In saucepan, add 2 tablespoon spoon oil. When the oil is hot, brown the onion (1/2 to 1 onion) and garlic (2-3 cloves) and curry leaves (half). Add the beef (500g). Add 3 teaspoon curry powder and chilli powder, tumeric, paprika, salt and pepper to taste (roughly 1 teaspoon each). Stir occasionally till meat is brown. Add potato cubes. Cover with boiling water from kettle (meat just covered) and let it simmer (~40 min)/ 10 min from end, add green beans. Add more boiling water if the level gets too low. Taste occasionally and add salt if needed.

Lentils (30 min)

In saucepan, add 2 tablespoon oil. When the oil is hot, brown the onion (1/2 to 1 onion) and garlic (2-3 cloves) and curry leaves (half). Add mustard seeds (1 teaspoon). When mustard seeds pop, add washed lentils. Add 3 teaspoon curry powder and chilli powder, tumeric, paprika to taste (roughly 1 teaspoon). Stir in for 1 min then cover with boiling water 1cm above lentils. Add chopped tomato, stir in. In 5 min, taste and keep adding salt a bit at a time till it tastes good. Simmer on low and stir occasionally. Take off heat before water boils off.

An eggplant and mustard curry was also made from this SBS recipe.

The above was served with rice. More than enough food for three people! The beef curry and lentils were hot but quite tasty with rice. The eggplant and mustard curry was much milder. The meal as a whole was flavoursome and similar to India.

Bye

Sam’s rating: 7/10