Category:Sri Lankan Vegetarian

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Sri Lanka produces some of the world's most succulent fruits and vegetables. The country's diverse climate that varies from arid to salubrious, gives the soil the variety and the rich moisture to produce fruits and vegetables that are a sought after items in the world. The flavor differs from bitter to very sweet exotic taste from region to region where it is grown.

Capsicum is a genus of plants related to the tomato in the nightshade family, whose fruit is used as a spice, vegetable, and medicine.

Carrots - A carrot is a root vegetable, typically orange in color with a woody texture.

Celery- As a salad plant, celery, especially if at all "stringy", is difficult to digest but possesses valuable diuretic properties. Both blanched and green it is stewed and used soups, the seeds also being used as a flavoring ingredient. Celery seed is used as a spice.

Sweet corn - Sweetcorn is commonly eaten as a vegetable, rather than a grain. The cobs are picked for relatively rapid distribution (or frozen in this 'soft' state) before the fruits mature into hard grains. The kernels are boiled or steamed and eaten as a side dish.

A very famous vegetarian dish is Sri Lankan Rolls which are cooked with tofu, potatoes, red pepper, onion, oil, curry powder, salt, flour, milk, eggs, and bread crumbs. As for eggplant curry you need milk, cooking oil, curry powder, red pepper powder, pinch sugar, onion, vinegar, and salt. Of course, you can try hundreds of combinations, but here are some of them: spicy potatoes with onion, cooking oil, hot pepper powder, garlic, mustard, salt, sugar, and green peppers; spinach with orange lentils, coconut milk, curry powder, mustard, onion, garlic, turmenic powder, green pepper, salt, pinch lemon grass, pinch cinnamon, and water; beet salad containing onions, tomatoes,, green peppers, black pepper powder, lime juice, and salt; curried okra which consists of onions, green pepper, curry powder, turmenic, cooking oil, mustard, lime, sugar, pinch cinnamon, and salt; curried green beans with gqrlic, onion, turmenic powder, cinnamon, salt, mustard, curry powder, and cooking oil; potato curry containing milk, curry powder, mustard, onoin, turmenic powder, green peppers, lemon grass, and salt; spicy onions with vinegar, sugar, red pepper powder, green peppers, salt, cooking oil, garlic, lemon grass, and cinnamon; potato cakes prepared with coconut milk, potatoes, eggs, flour, sugar, salt, margarine or butter, and cold water; bean curry, a tasty dish which can be prepared with onion, garlic, green chilies, rampe pieces and curry leaves, fenugreek seeds, curry powder, turmenic, coconut milk, lime juice, salt, and vegetable oil.