SBS Food

Manioc with turmeric from My Sri Lanka

Fri, 14 Oct 11 13:01:44 +1100

Peter cooks a curry for the farmers with the popular Sri Lankan vegetable manioca.

Breadfruit curry from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:25:56 +1100

Prima and Peter cook Peter’s childhood favourite meal, breadfruit curry.

Cashew nut curry from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:25:24 +1100

Peter decides to make a distinctive cashew nut curry to offer to the Kelaniya priest.

Grilled banana prawns from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:24:53 +1100

Peter grills banana prawns with black pepper and curry leaf sauce on the sand of his favourite beach.

Ambul thial from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:24:13 +1100

As the sun fades Peter cooks Ambul Thial, a freshwater fish dish, by the water of Lake Habarana and is visited by an inquisitive elephant.

King's chicken curry from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:23:24 +1100

At Sigiriya, Peter sets up a camp kitchen on a peak opposite the fort and prepares a wild fowl curry recipe transcribed from the time of the Kings onto a palm leaf.

Cornett of black pepper beef from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:21:26 +1100

Peter also picks some fresh peppercorns and prepares a cornet of black pepper beef wrapped in betel leaves.

Pumpkin curry with brinjal rotti from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:20:40 +1100

Peter decides to cook his father’s favourite meal; pumpkin curry with rotti, prepared in an old hotel where Peter’s father used to meet with his friends.

Ceylon tea prawns from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:20:06 +1100

Peter decides to cook with tea and inside the factory serves up mulligatawny soup with grilled prawns.

Tea country pork curry from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:19:18 +1100

Peter cooks a traditional wild boar curry with coconut rotti, substituting pork for wild boar.

Mahi mahi curry with savoury rolls from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:18:40 +1100

Peter cooks mahi mahi with a traditional fishy curry sauce and prawn and kumara rolls by the sea.

Mrs Amarasakara's hoppers from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:14:17 +1100

Peter is invited into Mrs Amarasakara’s kitchen, where he hopes she’ll be able to guide him through a secret recipe he’s spent 20 years trying to perfect.

Beetroot curry with snake bean curry from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:13:34 +1100

Surrounded by action in the market as he cooks, Peter demonstrates the concept of "curry multi-tasking", whereby you have a few curries progressing at once.

Crisp herring from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:12:53 +1100

Peter manages to catch a few herring while teetering precariously on his borrowed post. Back on the beach, Peter cooks a fried herring salad on a crackling wood-fire.

PK's ultimate seafood barbecue from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:11:18 +1100

As the sun sets, Peter sets up a seafood barbeque on the sand. Utilising the fresh catches of the day, Peter’s menu consists of crabs in a ginger and shallot sauce, prawns and fish.

Egg rolls from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:10:28 +1100

Peter and his assistant Babby cook egg rolls with fish and potato – a street food that Babby often sneaks off to eat whenever they reach a city.

Seared mackerel with goat curd from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:08:30 +1100

Motivated by the eclectic influences of Galle, Peter serves up a Mediterranean Galle Fort-inspired dish of herb-crusted mackerel with beetroot salad.

Squid curry from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:07:36 +1100

Peter pulls in some cuttlefish and decides to cook using a recipe for black and sour fish with squid, noting that the recipe is transferrable to cuttlefish as well.

Devilled tuna from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:07:07 +1100

Peter cooks tuna by a marina, preparing it as a popular Sri Lankan devilled tuna dish. The local fishermen eat the fish appreciatively once it is ready, and Peter farewells the east coast.

Lagoon prawns with lady's finger sambol from My Sri Lanka

Tue, 11 Oct 11 13:06:04 +1100

Back on shore, Peter sources some lagoon prawns and grills them to serve with a ladyfinger sambol and an Italian-inspired breadcrumb garnish known as pangritata.