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    How do you make yourself coconut milk and get fit at the same time

    Coconut rasps for coconut milk or sambol   Do you know this device?       It’s a coconut grater. Honestly, I did not know it until I went to Sri Lanka this year. I discovered it at a great cooking class in Kandy (thanks to Sulochna’s Kitchen, “cooking classes at Thotupola Residence, Kandy, Sri Lanka). It gave us the chance to make fresh grated coconut quickly and easily, but our strength was required! We then kneaded the coconut rasps with little and then more water and squeezed it through a sieve, and out came coconut milk (or “cream” if made with little water). For Sri Lanka curry dishes coconut…

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    Do you love curry dishes? Here is a Sri Lankan version!

    Sri Lanka curry is different You probably know the Indian curry mixture best. The most common is certainly the Curry Madras. In the supermarket, you will find mostly mild to medium-hot curry, while you will rarely find a very spicy one. Sri Lanka curry smells and tastes different, especially because the one used for meat is roasted. To make the curry spicier they use ground cayenne or chili flakes. Curry is always a mixture of about 5 to 13 different spices. Because it’s a mix, there are so many different kinds of it. Depending on what spices it contains, it is milder or more spicy. Sometimes a spice prevails, for…