Category:Sri Lankan Appetizers

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Appa (Hoppers) prepared with a batter of rice flour and coconut milk raised with yeast is a kind of flat pancake with crispy edges and a soft centre. Sometimes an egg is added to the centre to make delicious Bittara Appa (egg hoppers) or the batter is mixed with sweetened scraped coconut to make sweeter Hakuru Appa (jaggery hoppers).Kiribath (Milk rice) is rice cooked with coconut milk usually served on ceremonial occasions and eaten with Katta Sambol (a mixture of chillies, onions, Maldive fish and lime crushed together) or jaggery. It is sometimes made into big balls with a filling of scrapped coconut sweetened with treacle when it is called Imbul Kiribath.Pittu is rice flour, grated coconut and water mixed to a fine particle size and steamed in a mould. It is eaten with curry or katta sambol.