FAV Food in SL
KOTTU
Kottu Roti is the Sri Lankan street food
favoured by locals and visitors alike. Some love it late at night after
a stint of partying, others love it for breakfast. The coolest thing
about Kottu is the way it’s made. Believe it or not, Kottu-making has a
rhythmic beat. It’s a Sri Lankan icon, once only for the low and middle class, now a favourite with the upper class youth.
The preparation of Kottu Roti has a rhythmic tune that can be heard
blocks away. First the onions and vegetables are put on the girdle, then
the eggs. Once the eggs are scrambled and cooked, the cut up roti is
added to the mix. This is when the music starts. The Kottu cook puts the
two metal spatulas to work and starts mixing and cutting the stuff on
the girdle with a rhythm. Every cook has his own personal rhythm.
Dough:
Mix dough ingredients and process properly. Create balls, golf ball size, put one next to each other, coat with oil and let them rest.
Then take a ball of the dough and create large and a very thin griddlecakes. It is important to work on a smooth metal board, that the dough doesnt stick to it. When you have a large and tiny griddlecake, put on a hotplate coated slightly with oil. Then create another one, put on top of the first one and turn both of them, then continue like this again and again, that you always have the newly added directly on the hotplate.
Then take all of the griddlecakes, create roll of them and start cutting it from the side. Then turn the heap by 90 degrees and continue cutting. And as what you want are just a tiny pieces of dough, if you can see some larger parts, chop them fine.
MIXING WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS
Fry curry leaves, garlic and ginger on a bit of oil. Add carrot, white cabbage, leak, red onions, green chilies. Then add an egg, leftovers of chicken curry, chili flakes, chicken curry sauce. Mix and chop. Please see the video.
There are so many variants of kottu. You can use just an egg and chicken curry, or vegetarian version, meaning egg and vegetable only. It simply depends on your preferences and fantasy.
Ingredients
For 4 portions:Dough:
- 1 and 1/3 cup wheat flour
- 1 and 1/2 tbs butter
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup water
- oil to drizzle the dough and for frying
- chicken curry leftovers including sauce
- handful white cabbage cut into strips
- 1 small carrot grated
- piece of leek cut into strips
- 1 small red onion chopped
- 3 green chili peppers
- 16 fresh curry leaves
- eggs - one for each portion
- chili flakes - usually 1 tsp per portion
- 3 cloves garlic crushed
- 1-2 cm long piece of fresh ginger
Process
DOUGH:Mix dough ingredients and process properly. Create balls, golf ball size, put one next to each other, coat with oil and let them rest.
Then take a ball of the dough and create large and a very thin griddlecakes. It is important to work on a smooth metal board, that the dough doesnt stick to it. When you have a large and tiny griddlecake, put on a hotplate coated slightly with oil. Then create another one, put on top of the first one and turn both of them, then continue like this again and again, that you always have the newly added directly on the hotplate.
Then take all of the griddlecakes, create roll of them and start cutting it from the side. Then turn the heap by 90 degrees and continue cutting. And as what you want are just a tiny pieces of dough, if you can see some larger parts, chop them fine.
MIXING WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS
Fry curry leaves, garlic and ginger on a bit of oil. Add carrot, white cabbage, leak, red onions, green chilies. Then add an egg, leftovers of chicken curry, chili flakes, chicken curry sauce. Mix and chop. Please see the video.
There are so many variants of kottu. You can use just an egg and chicken curry, or vegetarian version, meaning egg and vegetable only. It simply depends on your preferences and fantasy.
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