Authentic Sri Lankan Prawn Curry (Shrimp Curry) where the shrimp heads are cooked first in a rich and aromatic curry base to coax out the full depth of flavor, and the shrimp body is cooked just long enough so that it’s tender and juicy and coated with that thick, luscious sauce/gravy. An easy recipe that…
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Sri Lankan Mango Curry
Sweet, spicy and sour, this delicious Mango Curry is a Sri Lankan classic and favorite. Simple to make and packed with a great depth of flavor, like any good curry. Perfect dish to use up seasonal mangoes that are slightly underripe. It’s that time of the year when juicy, ripe, sweet mangoes are hitting the shelves…
Sweet Coconut stuffed Crepes | Sri Lankan Pani Pol (Coconut Pancakes)
Soft crepes stuffed with a sweet coconut filling – these Pani Pol are a Sri Lankan classic that I loved eating growing up. These Sweet Coconut stuffed Crepes are embarrassingly easy to make and really quite addictive. Perfect tea-time treat or snack. HELLO 2017! Happy New Year everyone! I’ve got an awesome recipe to kick…
Overnight Pumpkin Pie Chia Pudding Parfait (GF & Vegan friendly)
This creamy overnight Pumpkin Pie Chia Pudding Parfait truly is the ultimate make-ahead, healthy, delicious breakfast! Full of fiber, protein and all the cozy flavors of Fall, the holidays and pumpkin pie, this parfait is gluten free, paleo-friendly and vegan friendly. I am SO READY for 2017! And to kiss 2016 good-bye! After an endless…
Vegan Cardamom Spiced Coconut Ice Cream
Happy Monday everyone! Just five more days for the weekend again, so hang in there. 🙂 If you have visited this blog before, do you notice anything different? That’s right, I finally changed my URL over to the new theflavorbender.com AND changed my logo and header too! I kept a few elements from my old…
Chicken and Melon Salad with Coconut Sambol
Salads make me feel happy inside. Not because salads are hilariously good at telling jokes like this. But happy, anyway. A good salad, whether it’s a garden salad, a main course salad, a fruit salad, a dessert salad or whatever, can be bursting with incredible flavour, if prepared right – like the one that I’m going…
Jalapeno Mango Coconut Popsicles {Popsicle Series}
This Jalapeno Mango Coconut Popsicles post is version 2.0 of a post originally published last year. With summer just around the corner, it’s time to make room for frozen treats in your freezer again. I get a little grumpy when it’s too hot and humid, so this is especially true for me. 🙂 I first made…
Dairy Free Basil and Nutella French Toast with Strawberry Black Pepper Compote
If you like Sundays and if you like breakfast, I’m sure you’ve met French toast before. From its humble beginnings during the Roman empire (apparently there’s not much that’s French about French toast), many centuries ago (more or less, who knows for sure, I wasn’t around at the time), French toast has traveled the world…
Green Curry Roast Chicken
I once had Thai green curry for dinner every day for two weeks. True story. This was when I used to live in a quaint little town called Lismore in Australia, and even after that I would always get green curry takeout every time I was feeling a bit under the weather. The restaurant owner…