Located in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is a tropical island country, known as the "Gem Kingdom" and the "Pearl of the Indian Ocean". Sri Lanka, with its beautiful oceans and beaches, was once known as a tourist attraction. People who have been here to play will find that Sri Lankans, especially women, have a good face, and it is difficult to judge their age by their looks. Let's take a look at what Sri Lankan families like to eat for three meals a day, and why they are not old.
1. Breakfast
Family breakfast in Sri Lanka is usually pancakes, which is a traditional breakfast in Sri Lanka, but now it has become a popular snack in the streets. Pancakes are made of rice paste, coconut milk, coconut water and a small amount of powdered sugar, and are fried into bowl-shaped size by a high-side pan. Fresh baked, you can eat it or put eggs in the middle of the cake, which tastes better with Sri Lanka's unique bean curry Chili sauce.
bean curry is made of mahogany beans and coconut milk, with onions, green peppers and spices such as cinnamon, fennel, fenugreek and banlan leaves. This dish tastes a little thinner than the Indian version of cajanus cajan curry, and it will be more fragrant if it is cooked in a traditional clay pot.
For breakfast, most Sri Lankans still like to drink yogurt. The yogurt in Sri Lanka is very thick. It looks like an ordinary yogurt, but it is a little more sour than ordinary yogurt. But the way to eat it here is to add papaya and sweet milk to it and mix it. The locals like it very much. You will also add a spoonful of honey and mix it well before drinking. There is also a strong way to eat, that is, adding a local coconut wine to yogurt, which is very strong and has a strong coconut flavor.
Black tea is indispensable for breakfast. I don't need to say more about how famous Sri Lankan black tea is. The quality of milk tea brewed with black tea here is also quite good. Langka people drink tea in a completely different way from us. Here, as in the west, they all drink tea bags, and the finer the tea, the better. Langka people drink tea in a completely different way from us. Here, as in the west, they all drink tea bags, and the finer the tea, the better.
Although Sri Lankan black tea was originally supplied by British colonists, the tea produced was also to the taste of British and Europeans. Their habit of drinking tea is to add sugar and milk or honey, which can reduce the bitter taste of tea and drink it together. Sri Lankan black tea is used as beverage tea, such as desktop milk tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea, fruit tea and so on, which will have excellent results.
Influenced by the British diet, some Sri Lankan families also eat western food in the morning, usually chocolate milk and sandwiches. Because local people eat with their hands, every table will be equipped with cleaning utensils. An enamel kettle filled with clear water, pour the dirty water washed by your right hand into the plastic plate in the lower right corner, and then wipe your hands with a newspaper.
2. Lunch
Sri Lanka, a teardrop-shaped Indian Ocean island, is a real hometown of food. Under the influence of long-term colonization and trade in history, Sri Lankan cuisine has formed a unique flavor that combines the characteristics of the Netherlands, Portugal, Britain, Malaysia, India and local aborigines, attracting the taste buds of diners from all directions.
Lunch The staple food of family lunch in Sri Lanka is rice. The dish we often eat is similar to our common "salad". Fresh stone is ground with a pestle and mortar, and eaten raw with rich sauce. Pol sambol is the most popular "salad". Fresh coconut, dried peppers, red onions, lemon juice and Maldivian dried fish (or salted tuna) are ground and mixed together, and served with rice, which is very delicious.
A Sri Lankan dinner must include all kinds of curry dishes, and each curry has a different flavor. Due to the British colonial influence, the vegetable curry in Sri Lanka mostly uses potatoes, carrots and pumpkins, and pineapple, okra and bitter gourd are also widely used as dishes. Sri Lankan curry dishes are usually served with rice and eaten by hand. White rice, Redmi or glutinous rice can be used.
Coconuts have been brought into full play in Sri Lanka, and some will be added to all kinds of delicious food. A kind of golden coconut is a specialty of Sri Lanka Island for thousands of years. From a distance, the coconut hanging on the street is golden and very festive. It is also the raw material of many foods in Sri Lanka. Coconut pulp, coconut powder and coconut oil can be integrated into all kinds of foods in Sri Lanka.
Coconut milk cake is a kind of traditional Sinhalese food that locals often eat for lunch. It originated in the 5th century A.D. It is made by putting coconut milk, salt, etc. into the rice to be cooked, then cutting it into small pieces. Traditionally, it must be cut into diamonds, and served with Chili sauce, curry, etc., which is elastic and fragrant with coconut. If it is Sinhalese and Tamil New Year, it will be accompanied by fried sweets such as Kokis and Kavum.
For lunch, locals will also make a kind of fried cake, which is made of cassava, rice flour, coconut milk, eggs and so on. Although Kokis is considered as a traditional Sri Lankan snack, it originated from the Dutch. Kevum, a fried "sugar cake", is a traditional Sinhalese dessert made of rice flour and sugar brown. Aasmi, made of rice flour and coconut juice of cinnamon, is fried and topped with pink syrup.
3. Dinner
Rice, coconut meat, corn and cassava are the main foods for dinner in Sri Lanka. They especially prefer coconut juice and red pepper, which are indispensable seasonings in almost all their dishes. There is rice and curry for almost lunch and dinner in Sri Lanka. The raw materials of curry generally include pepper, turmeric, cinnamon, sour beans, coconut juice, mustard and so on. Usually, when serving, these curries will be served with rice and side dishes, with sweet and sour eggplant, soft potatoes and other ingredients.
Spiced rice is what local people often eat for dinner. It is the food of the Moors in Sri Lanka, which originated in M Slim, India. Generally, a lot of spices are used in rice, and then salted mutton, chicken, beef, seafood, dried fruits, vegetables, yogurt and so on are added to cook. This is a very popular food in Sri Lanka.
Indonesian fried rice is often eaten for dinner, which is a traditional food in Indonesia and Malaysia. With the spread of Malays to Sri Lanka, it can be seen in many restaurants in Sri Lanka. Don't use fried rice from other Asian countries, because locals use a lot of sweet soy sauce and shrimp sauce, and the taste is stronger.
Sour fish curry is one of the favorite foods for family dinners in Sri Lanka. Generally, tuna or swordfish are used as raw materials, and the fish is cut into pieces and fried, and then stewed with various spices in a clay pot. According to different regions and tastes, the spices used are slightly different, but the most important ones are black pepper and gamboge. Unlike the pasty curry in Sri Lanka, Ambul thiyal is a dry curry dish that is eaten with rice or other curries.
Banana leaf rice is another popular rice in Sri Lanka, which is a bit like Biryani, but different from Biryani, it is made by slowly baking cooked rice with meat curry, Chili sauce, spices and vegetables wrapped in banana leaves, and its taste is mixed with the fragrance of rice, meat, sauce, spices and banana leaves, which makes it more fragrant and varied.
"Chili sauce" is always mentioned above, and it is called Sambal in Sri Lanka. It refers to a kind of spicy sauce or a paste mixed with various ingredients. Usually, Chili peppers are added with some ingredients such as shrimp sauce, coconut milk, onion, black pepper, lemon juice, palm sugar, rice vinegar, etc., which is sour and spicy, retains the natural taste and makes people memorable.
Chicken soup with coconut juice is a common food for dinner. Sri Lankan people have been eating coconut for generations. They chop a small mouth at the top of the coconut with a chopping knife, pour out the coconut juice for later use, then remove the top of the coconut, dig out the coconut meat on the inner wall, then remove the crumbs on the surface, and put in a fat hen. First attack the chicken with strong fire, then simmer it slowly. The coconut fragrance is accompanied by chicken fragrance, and it feels like.
Why do Sri Lankans look young and not old?
Diet is one side, and there is a high happiness index and relatively complete free medical care for all, but the main reason why Sri Lankans don't look old is related to their "Ayurveda" lifestyle. Ayurveda is a science of longevity, and it is an ancient Indian treatment system widely popular all over the world. It originated from the Adapo Veda in the Vedas.
thousands of years of research, study, observation and practical knowledge, diagnosis and treatment of patients, as well as the application of countless herbs and herbal compounds, are systematically arranged by the Ayurvedic system. This is a system developed in ancient times and is still popular all over the world. This is a complete medical system, which not only treats diseases, but also treats individuals from different angles. Ayurveda is closely related to yoga. Yoga postures, pranayama and higher-order mental movements, such as meditation, are easily accepted by people and recommended for keeping healthy.
Ayurveda aims to "keep healthy people and treat patients' diseases". Unlike the western medicine system, Ayurveda attaches equal importance to maintaining health, so individuals can have a healthy living condition. In order to keep healthy, individuals need to live a routine life following the Ayurvedic principles, such as getting up before sunrise, showing respect to their guru, god and mother earth, observing their bodies, looking at their faces in the mirror, brushing their teeth with bark, bathing every day and massaging themselves before bathing.
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