Sri Lankan Rice Recipes

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 rice, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are boiling, simmering, frying and steaming.

The everyday grain for half the planet — a neutral base that soaks up the flavours around it, from pilafs to fried rice. In this collection it's most often cooked with coconut milk, fine sea salt, lime juice, coconut oil, eggs and green chile. The dishes here span sri lankan classics ready in as little as 40 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.