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Isso Baduma

Well guys, I must say that this one was definitely an exciting experience for me. This was my first-time cooking and eating Sri Lankan Cuisine. It’s not so easy to get your hands-on Sri Lankan cuisine these days, unless you travel to Sri Lanka. However, it doesn’t end there! For the first time, I am posting a video, or a vlog for my recipes. Besides, I think this is the perfect time to see how it goes, and please do mind the small editing mistakes or little imperfections. Nevertheless, I consider myself really lucky actually, to have tried this Isso Baduma, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it in this blog and in my video! Hope you enjoy this one.

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Isso Baduma

Isso Baduma is a Sri Lankan prawn stir fry recipe, in a nutshell. It is also referred to as ‘devilled prawns or devilled shrimp’ due to the spice levels. However, this could also be a completely different dish, as there are many versions of the Isso Baduma. The beauty of this recipe is, that you can add any vegetable you like to the stir fry. Also, it is a quick and simple dish to make. It sounds much more complicated that it is! So, I hope you give it a go!

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Sri Lankan Cuisine

Sri Lankan cuisine is very similar to Indonesian cuisine and also contains influences from Southern tips of India. However, the main influence in Sri Lankan cuisine is due to its history with trading spices. Sri Lanka, as a very popular spice producer with a significant trade port for many hundreds of years, you can imagine that spices its feature heavily in the country’s food. Steamed rice and coconut are also two of the main ingredients that are at the heart of Sri Lanka cuisine.

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Sample Sri Lankan dishes

Using the ingredients above, the most popular dishes are curries served with boiled or steamed rice. The curry is usually made from various types of meat (fish, beef, chicken, mutton) or vegetables (lentils). Sometimes, you’ll even find curries made out of fruit. This could be very interesting! Also, as a typical side, you can expect chutneys, pickle vegetables, pickled fruits, and coconut sambol. This is a very specific paste from ground coconut. They mix fresh chili peppers into the coconut sambol to make it spicier. I’m not sure if I could handle so much heat! Also, it is very common to serve Sri Lankan dishes with a side of dried Maldive fish. So many flavours and combinations! I think it’s absolutely fascinating and I am very keen to try more of Sri Lankan cuisine. You’ll find many of these on the streets of Sri Lanka.

Prawns

Prawns are the hero of this dish! As you can see, I’ve cleaned them properly and removed the heads. I like to leave the tails on, as it just looks more beautiful and delicious on the plate. If you’ve bought a whole lot of prawns and don’t know what to do with them, no worries. You can freeze them and use them for later. When you feel like you are ready to have prawns again, you can try making:

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Vegetables

I really enjoy using bell-peppers. Especially, for the Isso Baduma recipe. The bell peppers have a certain sweetness, that goes perfectly with the fried prawns and red onions. For more colour, you can also add yellow bell peppers. Honestly, I think it would be great! Like I said, you can feel creative and manipulate this Isso Baduma totally to your liking. If you feel like adding baby sweetcorn, or any other vegetable for that matter, don’t you hesitate for a single second!

I hope you enjoyed this Isso Baduma, and I look forward to trying more Sri Lankan cuisine!

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Isso Baduma

Author: Michelle Minnaar

Ingredients

  • 10ml (2 tsp) vegetable oil
  • 1 red onion, cut into quarters
  • 1 green pepper, cut into squares
  • 1 red pepper, cut into squares
  • 400g (14oz) raw prawns, peeled and cleaned
  • 30ml (2 tbsp) tomato sauce/ketchup
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) soy sauce
  • 5ml (1 tsp) dried red chilli flakes
  • 10ml (2 tsp) sesame oil

Instructions

  1. Put the oil in a large frying pan or wok over a very high heat and immediately add the onion.
  2. Stir-fry for 30 seconds then add the peppers and stir-fry for 1 minute.
  3. Tip in the prawns and stir-fry for just over a minute, then add the rest of the ingredients and stir-fry for another minute.
  4. Serve immediately with naan or basmati rice.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 serving

Amount Per Serving

Calories 204

% Daily Value

Total Fat 6.6g

10%

Saturated Fat 1.4g

7%

Sodium 799mg

33%

Total Carbohydrates 11.4g

4%

Dietary Fiber 2.5g

10%

Sugars 6.1g

Protein 24.9g

6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

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  4. I love Dahl Curry so I guess that is but I am not over familiar with Sri-Lankan cooking and would love inspiration

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  8. I was introduced to Sri Lankan food by my daughter’s housemate at uni. She has cooked for us a few times and her mum has sent me her homemade spice mixes. I absolutely love Sri Lankan food, especially fish curries. This looks like a simpler way to enjoy the cuisine. Have pinned and shared. 🙂 PS I LOVE Brancott Estates SB. It’s fab!

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  10. I don’t think I’ve had any before, but I do love steamed rice and coconut, and I I love spicy food with fruit, so I maybe I would really like it.

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  17. I grew up in Sri Lanka, so i love all sorts of street food, curries and traditional sri lankan food! my fav has to be Dhal Wadai. I love devilled king prawns with cashew curry and rice too 🙂

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  18. It’s not a cuisine I’m familiar with yet. From what little I know though, it looks like it involves a huge number of flavours I love, so I must look into it further!

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  19. I don’t think I’ve tried Sri Lankan food, but I have had Pan-fried Garlic Butter Prawns and they were fabulous!

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  21. When we were on honeymoon we had Sri Lankan curry (not sure of the name!) for breakfast. It was delicious!

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  40. Sri Lanka isn’t somewhere I’ve got round to when cooking or eating out yet. I love exploring different cuisines but live in a house of suspicious/fussy eaters so sometimes I just go for it – indonesia, jamaica, morocco, gambia – and if you don’t like it then there’s always beans on toast, you don’t have to eat it. And funnily enough, every plate has been cleaned!

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  44. To be honest, I’ve never tried it before..but I’d happily try Sri Lankan dishes if they didn’t have any meat/fish or dairy in them . We’re a vegan family 😉

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  47. i have never tried any Sri Lankan food but i might have to steel your recipe for Isso Baduma it looks delicious.x great prize.x great blog.x

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  50. I find it is a mixture of so many different tastes- I have tried only a few dishes though – I used to child mind for two little lads whose parents came from Sri Lanka and their mum brought me a few dishes to try – one I remember clearly was Parippu which is a dhal curry which was really tasty

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  55. I cannot say i have ever tired Sri Lankan food but would love to give it a try i like the sound of it and always open to new flavours!

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  59. I don’t think ‘ve had Sri Lankan before, but I love spicy food so I think I’ll have to try it now. Thanks

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  66. I love fish curry – I’ve never had a Sri Lankan one but I’ve looked at some recipes and reckon that would be my favourite.

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  70. I haven’t tried any Sri Lankan food but would love to give it a go as I enjoy tasting new dishes

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