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Kottu Roti
Sri Lanka's iconic street food — shredded flatbread stir-fried with vegetables, egg, spices and your choice of chicken or vegetables on a sizzling hot griddle.
⏱ 40 min🔥 540 kcalMedium
★4.7(538)
6 recipes using chicken — Fish curry, kottu roti, hoppers — fiery coconut-rich cooking from the Pearl of the Indian Ocean.
These 6 sri lankan chicken recipes are ready in about 78 minutes on average, with 520–780 kcal per serving, and 0% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
Sri Lankan cuisine — Fish curry, kottu roti, hoppers — fiery coconut-rich cooking from the Pearl of the Indian Ocean — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Sri Lankan cooks work with chicken, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are frying, stir-frying, simmering and baking.
The world's most-cooked protein — mild, lean and endlessly adaptable to almost any spice profile or cooking method. In this collection it's most often cooked with soy sauce, eggs, onion, fresh curry leaves, sri lankan curry powder and coconut milk. The dishes here span sri lankan classics ready in as little as 30 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
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Sri Lanka's iconic street food — shredded flatbread stir-fried with vegetables, egg, spices and your choice of chicken or vegetables on a sizzling hot griddle.
Fragrant rice cooked in stock, baked with four curries, blachan and seeni sambol in a sealed banana leaf parcel — Sri Lanka's most unique colonial heritage dish.
Sri Lanka's most beloved street food — leftover flatbread (roti or godamba) chopped into strips and stir-fried with egg, vegetables, curry sauce and your choice of protein. The sound of steel blades on a griddle.
Sri Lankan chopped flatbread stir-fried with vegetables, egg and meat on a griddle — the island's most popular street food.
Sri Lanka's iconic street food — shredded godhamba roti chopped on a hot griddle with vegetables, egg and curry, set to the rhythm of clanging metal cleavers.
Rice, three-meat curry, frikkadel meatballs and seeni sambol wrapped in banana leaves and baked — Sri Lanka's most labor-intensive heritage dish.
Look for plump, pinkish flesh with no grey patches and a clean smell. Thighs stay juicier than breasts and forgive overcooking; bone-in, skin-on pieces deliver the most flavour.
Pat dry before searing for proper browning, and bring it to room temperature for 15 minutes so it cooks evenly. Marinades with acid or yoghurt tenderise lean breast meat.
Cook to an internal temperature of 74°C / 165°F — the juices should run clear and there should be no pink at the bone.
A lean, high-protein choice: a skinless breast delivers roughly 31 g of protein per 100 g with very little saturated fat.
Most of these 6 Sri Lankan chicken recipes are ready in around 78 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Kottu Roti (Sri Lankan Chopped Flatbread Stir-Fry), takes about 30 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 180 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 520 to 780 kcal per serving, averaging 600 kcal — Kottu Roti (Sri Lankan Chopped Flatbread Stir-Fry) is the lightest option at 520 kcal.
Kottu Roti (Sri Lankan Chopped Flatbread Stir-Fry) is a great place to start — it's rated medium and comes together in about 30 minutes. 0% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, chicken is most often paired with soy sauce, eggs, onion, fresh curry leaves, sri lankan curry powder and coconut milk. Sri Lankan kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.
Cook to an internal temperature of 74°C / 165°F — the juices should run clear and there should be no pink at the bone.