
What will I learn in a Sri Lankan cooking class? The actual curriculum
What a Sri Lankan cooking class teaches: tempering, coconut milk in two strengths, pounding sambol, and timing six curries to finish together.

What a Sri Lankan cooking class teaches: tempering, coconut milk in two strengths, pounding sambol, and timing six curries to finish together.

The most famous Sri Lankan dish is rice and curry, a whole plate rather than one dish. Plus kottu, hoppers, lamprais and how to eat it properly.

Rice and curry is not one dish but six or seven around a plate of rice. What each part does, the two coconut milks, and why timing is the real lesson.