How To Cook Roti

Roti, the food which most South Asian people eat as a home-made snack. It is of course considered a main meal in India, and also there are other forms of the Roti known as Naan, Chapathi, famous in the middle-east Asia which I'll be telling you how to cook them in other posts.
  Now I am ready to tell you how to cook the basic Roti.

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour 1kg

Salt 11/2 teaspoon

1 Scraped Coconut

Water or Coconut Water



Method:

  Add the flour, scraped coconut and salt together and mix it so that the flour, salt and coconut is evenly distributed. Next add water gradually to the mixture while mixing with your hands. At one point you will see that the dough is no longer sticky, you have reached the best conditions for the dough.

   Now separate small balls from the dough and flatten them on to a plate and place it on a preheated roti  pan.

Leave the flattened dough for a few minutes so that it is slightly crunchy ( do not make it too crunchy or else the roti will have a burnt taste).

Remove it from the pan and you can now enjoy your roti. Or you can eat it with Sri Lankan chillie paste (click here to find out how to make Sri Lankan chili paste)

How To Cook Milk Rice and Lunumiris

 As a Sri Lankan, what we eat for celebrations as the main food is Milk Rice with Lunumiris. It is a very tasty treat for your mouth, the taste of milk with rice and along with a hot traditional chili paste (lunu-miris) gives wonders to your taste buds. It is my duty and will be my pleasure to teach you how to cook milk rice from home.


                           The making of the chilli paste (lunu-miris)    lunu = salt, miris = chili








Things you need:

10 dried chilies
50g of red onion (small onion)
3 table spoons Maldive fish/cured tuna (ground)
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon lime



                                                 

Method:

Add the dry red chilies, the maldive fish and the onions along with the salt into the grinder/blender. Now blend them well until a thick red paste is fromed.
Empty the contents into a bowl and add the lime and mix it well. Now you have you chili paste or lunu-miris.

                        


                             
                                The making of the milk rice ( Kiri-bath)    kiri = milk,  bath = rice
                           

        Things you need                                                  

        500g white rice raw

        coconut milk
        salt

Method:

 Divide the coconut milk in two separate bowls in which one bowl should be dilute coconut milk and the other has thick/concentrated coconut milk.
 Wash the rice well, place it in the rice-cooker and add the dilute coconut milk until the dilute coconut milk is 1- 1.5 inches above the rice.
 When the rice is cooked halfway, add the thick or concentrated coconut milk into the rice cooker and let it be cooked to the end.
 Now you have finished cooking your milk rice.
 For presentation you can put it in a plate and cut cubes and when eating mix it with the lunu-miris well.

ENJOY THE TASTE OF SRI LANKA!!