Cooking Basics
Sri Lankan Cooking Guides
The skills and know-how behind authentic Sri Lankan cooking: how to roast spices, make your own curry powder, cook with coconut milk and build a pantry from scratch. Start here, then dive into the recipes.
A Guide to Sri Lankan Spices
These are the spices that actually build Sri Lankan flavour. What they are, how they get roasted, and what belongs in your cupboard.
How to Make Sri Lankan Curry Powder
Roast and grind your own dark Sri Lankan curry powder. It's the one upgrade that changes every curry you cook.
Cooking with Coconut Milk the Sri Lankan Way
Thin milk, thick milk and how to stop it splitting. Here's everything you need to use coconut milk like a Sri Lankan cook.
Sri Lankan Rice: Varieties and How to Cook Them
Nutty red rice, fragrant yellow rice, and the rices of Sri Lanka, plus how to get each one perfectly every time.
Building a Sri Lankan Pantry from Scratch
The shopping list that opens up Sri Lankan cooking: what to grab first, what can wait, and where to find it if you live abroad.
Sri Lankan Kitchen Tools (and What You Already Own)
From the hopper pan to the grinding stone, here are the few tools that help and the everyday kit that works just as well.
Sri Lankan Rice and Curry: How a Plate Comes Together
The art of the Sri Lankan plate: how rice, a main curry, a dhal, a vegetable and a sambol balance into one perfect meal.
Sri Lankan Cooking for Complete Beginners
Never cooked Sri Lankan food? Start here: the three dishes to learn first, plus the habits that make it easy.
Ingredient Sourcing by Country
Can't find goraka, Maldive fish or proper roasted curry powder where you live? These country guides point you to the right grocers, supermarket swaps and online shops.
United States
Where to find curry powder, goraka and coconut milk across the US.
View guideUnited Kingdom
Sri Lankan and Tamil grocers, plus online shops for the UK.
View guideAustralia
Sourcing pandan, Maldive fish and spices down under.
View guideCanada
South Asian grocers and delivery options across Canada.
View guideFree: 5 Sri Lankan Recipes for Beginners
Dhal curry, pol sambol, yellow rice and the pantry checklist.