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Like in most countries, the common dishes are prepared in villages; to acquire specific Sri Lankan Recipes will be very difficult. They don't create recipes with the aid of a cookbook. Everything is by working through taste and adjustment of seasonings. This is how Sinhalese women prepare their dishes, and there are no women who cook similarly. Every women uses a different ingredient to prepare a Sri Lankan Recipes, therefore how they interpret a dish is entirely special. When Sinhalese women told you of a specific measurement of a seasoning or any ingredient, she will demonstrate it to you with her hand gestures. When you want to prepare a Sri Lankan Recipes, you better take a look on how the women in the country cook their meal and you must make a trial and error method of cooking the food. Once you achieve a perfect meal you should write it down so you can remember how it is created.

White Chicken Curry

 
Normally we used to eat chicken as a spicy curry, fried or roasted. I have never eaten a white chicken curry in my life, and haven’t seen any Sri lankan making chicken as a white curry. So I just thought to experiment a white chicken curry and it was very successful. Everyone who ate this dish told it´s very nice and tasty. So the experiment was successful and decided to share it with all of you. Try the recipe by yourself too.

INGREDIENTS:
500g chicken – cut into small chucks
½ onion – sliced
3 cloves of garlic – sliced
4 – 5 curry leaves
½ teaspoon fenugreek (Uluhal)
1 teaspoon Sri Lankan raw curry powder
¼ teaspoon Chili powder
½ teaspoon Turmeric
1 ½ cups coconut milk
350ml water
Salt to taste

DIRECTIONS:
Place these all ingredients (onions, garlic, fenugreek, curry leaves, turmeric, chili powder, Sri Lankan raw curry powder & salt) in a medium size saucepan.
Then add the chicken pieces into the saucepan and mix it well.
Then add water and ½ cup of coconut milk and mix it well with chicken mixture.
And now keep the saucepan on high heat for nearly 15 minutes.
Then stir the curry and keep it on heat for nearly another 15- 20 minutes.
When the water level has gone down, it’s the time to the rest of the coconut milk into the chicken, and slowly mixes it well.
Reduce the heat and keep the saucepan on heat for another 15 minutes or the amount of the gravy you want. Taste for salt.
(Stir the curry while you are cooking. If you don’t, the coconut milk will get curdle.)

SERVING:
You can eat white chicken curry with rice, bread, roti, string hoppers or anything you like.

NOTES:
1. If you cut chicken into small chunks, the benefits are, chicken will cook quickly, it will adsorb the spices well and at last the taste is very good.

2. Firstly chicken should cook in the second time milk. (Diya kiri)

3. After you added the coconut milk for the second time, if you keep the curry on very low heat for nearly ½ hour, you will get a nice yellowish oil layer on the top of the chicken curry.

4. If you like, you can sprinkle little bit of Sri Lankan roasted curry powder on the top of the curry. (Before or after transfer the curry into a serving dish.)
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