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Sri Lankan Kottu Roti ~ Love Cake
  • Sri Lankan Kottu Roti ~ Love Cake
  • Sri Lankan Kottu Roti ~ Love Cake
  • Sri Lankan Kottu Roti ~ Love Cake
  • Sri Lankan Kottu Roti ~ Love Cake
Sri Lankan Kottu Roti ~ Love Cake

Sri Lankan Kottu Roti ~ Love Cake
£9.00

A delicious meal with all the island flavours of Sri Lanka...
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Kottu translates from Sinhalese as 'chopped', and this hugely popular Sri Lankan street food consists of chopped up roti (a type of flatbread), stir-fried with chicken, vegetables and egg. It’s typically cooked on a heated iron sheet using two blunt blades to mix and chop - a distinctive sound which can be heard everywhere in Sri Lanka! For dessert we’ve got a traditional dessert of Portuguese origin known as love cake flavoured with rose, cinnamon and cardamon. All the spices in this cake were regarded as powerful aphrodisiacs, including rose which is known as the ‘queen of love’!

Details

Prep: 40 mins

Cook: 1 hour

Serves: 4

Effort: Medium effort

Origin: Sri Lanka
Shopping list
  • 500g diced chicken (thighs are best) or use meat-free style chicken pieces or paneer for a veg version (following the same cooking instructions)
  • 1 medium red onion
  • Fresh ginger
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1 large carrot
  • ¼ cabbage (any type)
  • ½ cucumber
  • ½ medium pineapple (or 200g ready-prepared)
  • 2 lemons
  • 6 eggs (any size)
  • 125g butter
  • 1 tbsp tomato puree
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce (any type)
  • 50g self-raising flour
  • 125g dried polenta or semolina
  • 150g soft light brown sugar
  • 30g desiccated coconut
  • 100g unsalted cashew nuts
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 4 chapatis, pitta breads or tortilla wraps
Spices included

Lunu Miris Spices: mild chilli flakes (chilli flakes, oil, salt), Kashmiri chilli, chilli, cumin
Cake Spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander, green cardamon, rose
Rose Petals: rose
Cinnamon Quills: cinnamon
Salad Spices: brown MUSTARD, cumin, mild chilli flakes (chilli flakes, oil, salt), curry leaf
Tempering Spices: curry leaf, brown MUSTARD, cumin, chilli
Coconut Sambol Spices: green bell pepper, curry leaf
Sri Lankan Curry Powder: coriander, cumin, chilli, black pepper, basmati rice, fenugreek, turmeric, fennel, ginger, yellow MUSTARD, green cardamon, cloves, cinnamon, curry leaf

Allergens are listed in CAPITALS. May contain CELERY and SESAME.

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