New to cooking curries and looking for more Sri Lankan rice and curry menu ideas ? I am happy to share another one of the dinner menu lists inspired by Sri Lankan cuisine with links to full recipe posts. Every rice and curry dinner menu on the list is a dinner I would cook at my home or from a dinner menu plan that I served in the past to family or friends.
Sri Lankan menu ideas that are presented here, included with background information on how to serve it and linked to some of the recipes. Click on the name of the curry on the section to read more about the recipe and to know how to make it. Recipes are posted to the website every month, so make sure to subscribe, so that you can get an email alert as soon as a recipe is published.
Sri Lankan rice and curry typically served in buffet style. Rice dish is placed in the middle of the table in a platter and sides of curries and condiments from mild to spicy flavor in its own separate bowls, surrounding it. Dinner table in Sri Lanka is essentially is a buffet table of multiple curries and condiments. Each and every guest at the table will serve themselves from the rice platter and then the sides they prefer, spoon the curries over the serving of the rice.
Scooping rice and several different sides together in a same dinner plate is the very popular in Sri Lanka. Although this serving techniques of trying multiple sides is frowned upon in parts of the world, this is a must if you are planning of enjoying hearty, comforting Sri Lankan rice and curry dinner with layers of complex flavors.
Rice and curry menu idea for a Sunday dinner
Dinner menu in the picture is ideal for a family gathering where you want to show-off ethnic cooking skills with rustic Sri Lankan curries. I made it for family Sunday dinner after a nice late summer afternoon stroll and visiting my favorite Asian grocery stores.
A special occasion family rice and curry dinner menu
Rice and curry dinner with Sri Lankan yellow rice, is another favorite at my home. Sri Lankan yellow rice, is served in Sri Lankan style wedding menus oftentimes. I mixed and matched spicy, mild, and savory curry side dishes, to highlight the creamy flavors of the yellow rice.
Rustic Sri Lankan Dinner served on lotus leaf
Lotus leaf lunch packets are a sought after packaged meal, among Sri Lankan community. Lotus/ Water lily plants have ginormous leaves that can be used as a Eco friendly meal container. It was a popular way to carry packaged rice and curry dinners, before plastic lunch sheets or meal-prep containers were popular.
To make potato fry with dried tuna follow the recipe of spicy potato fry and add dry-fish that is fried sedately, before adding potatoes. Check out the video on how to do this.
Rice and curry dinner menu to impress in laws
Layers of flavors in a single scoop with this Sri Lankan rice and curry dinner plate. Flaunt your home-cooking skills, with this Sri Lankan rice and curry menu. It has recipes, that can be made ahead of time and have ready to be served within minutes.
Under the weather ? A rice and curry dinner for those recovery cravings
Flu season is in and I keep finding myself going for the easy to make, spicy savory and anti-inflammatory curries for family dinners. A warm hug in a bowl with this comforting Sri Lankan rice and curry meal.
A rice and curry holiday dinner with full of flavors
Curried duck dinner is one of my favorite holiday curry ensembles, that I made over the Christmas. It is a labor of love to make this perfect Sri Lankan duck curry, but it is so worth it. Click on the name to check out the recipe.
Easy plant based rice and curry dinner
Feeling like a want to enjoy a lighter rice and curry dinner ? This plant based delicious dinner with just two easy curry recipes and a simple salad is a perfect choice.
to make the celery and onion salad, follow the same recipe of my cucumber salad in the post linked. Go ahead and swap cucumbers with celery and serve over rice.
Sri Lankan cuisine has many delicious recipes to offer the world. A good Sri Lankan menu idea combines symphony of flavors in one single plate. Some of the novelty foods like dried fish/ fish jerky/ salted fish that are really Sri Lankan delicacies that makes this heritage cuisine one of the most delicious in the world.
I encourage you to try out Sri Lankan rice and curry menu ideas for your next gathering, and serve some of the popular curry recipes from us. Want to read more posts about Sri Lankan curry and culture? Read our blog posts that dive deep in to making of curry recipes. If you decide, to go one more step ahead contact me for get in the wait list for individual workshop to learn to make my recipes.
