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Curry Puffs  Ingredients For the pastry 500g plain flour 125 g butter pinch salt 1 cup water For the mix... 300g chicken 300g boiled potatoes 3 green chillies 1 large onions Chicken stock powder Salt Tumeric powdr Pepper Chillie powder Curry powder Method Fry the onions,curry leaves with green chillies Add the chicken and all the spices with stock and salt. Cook 5-10 min. Add the potatoes cook two min and leave it cool. Add all the ingredients for the dough and knead about 7-8 min. Then make circles out from the dough. Fill the circle with the mix and press edges or use a pastry cutter. Bake them on 180 after egg washing or deep fry until golden brown.

Marble Cake Ingredients 330g Self Raising flour 250g Butter 260g Sugar 3 Eggs 180ml Milk 1Tblsp Vanila Food Colouring Cocoa Powder Method Preheat the oven to 170c. Grease a 20 or 22 cm baking tray. Add the butter and sugar and mix until creamy. Next add vanila & eggs and mix, After add flour and mix it. Add milk while mixing the flour. Devide the mix in to 3 equal parts. Leave one portion as it is. Add cocoa and the colouring to the other bowls. Then add all three colours alternetively. Take a fork and swirl around to get the marbled effect. Flatten the mix and bake 170 about 40 min. Insert a skewer and check whether the cake is ready. If the skewer comes out clean its cooked. Leave the cake to cool down on a wire rack.

Fish rotis are one of my favourite rotis. Before making them by my self I used to buy them from take away shops in Sri Lanka. They are quite expensive. But worth buying when you are lazy to cook or no time to cook. But the money you spen to buy 2 or 3 , if you spend the same to buy the ingredients you can make 20 with out a problem. Not only that the advantage is you exactly know whats in it too.  You can cook them and freeze or put in air tight containers in the fridge for several days.Once you know the technique its really easy. Always adjust level of fish , vegetables and spices to your liking. This is the link for making godamba roti. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0gzcWht8I Fish Roti ( Fish Filling in unleavened Flat bread) Ingredients Godamba roti  dough ( Can get the recipe from my channel) Boiled potatoes Curry leaves Salt 1 can mackeral 1 onion finely sliced Carrot garloc Leeks Chillie powder Pepper Curry powder Oil for stir frying. Met...

Naran Kavum/ Pol Kavum/ (Sweet coconut Balls) In some parts of Sri Lanka Pol kavum or the Naran Kavum are very famous during the new year. Coconut is common in every part of Sri Lanka and people love to eat any thing infused or mixed with coconut. I read an article about the values of coconut. Its amazing to know every detail about consuming coconut and how it keep the people away from dimentia. Though we havent had any idea about these long time ago, I can remember we rearely saw a person dying from dimetia, though it is very common in some part of the world. The shape of the mandarine, gave these sweet treats the name naran kavum. The swet coconut and treacle mix cooked on the stove gives these a devine taste. After making it a ball and deep fried in a batter make these look awesome on the plate. Ingredients 1/4 Cup water ( will need more for the batter) 1/2 Cup freshly grated coconut 100g Rice Flour ( will need more for the batter) 100g Brown Sugar Crushed cardamon...