{"id":89334,"date":"2022-03-29T03:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T03:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=89334"},"modified":"2022-03-29T03:42:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T03:42:48","slug":"cook-up-a-sri-lankan-spread-from-o-tama-careys-new-cookbook-by-o-tama-carey-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/cook-up-a-sri-lankan-spread-from-o-tama-careys-new-cookbook-by-o-tama-carey-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook up a Sri Lankan spread from O Tama Carey’s new cookbook – by O TAMA CAREY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cook up a Sri Lankan spread from O Tama Carey’s new cookbook – <\/span><\/strong>by O TAMA CAREY<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n
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Island of spices: Sri Lankan meals tend to be based around one or two curries and involve plenty of vegetables. Photo: Anson Smart\/Hardie Grant Books <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Source<\/strong>:goodfood.com.au<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

O Tama Carey didn’t intend to open a restaurant. But after stumbling into a career in hospitality \u2013\u00a0and cooking everything from French and Italian, Japanese and Chinese \u2013\u00a0she decided to tap her Sri Lankan heritage for her next move, opening a shop selling hoppers, the\u00a0bowl-shaped pancakes with crisp edges, fluffy interiors and slightly tangy flavour that are such a feature of Lankan cuisine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The shop morphed into a restaurant, Lankan Filling Station, which she opened in Sydney’s Darlinghurst in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now she’s on a mission to introduce more people to the cuisine she has grown up with, in her cookbook\u00a0Lanka Food: Serendipity & Spice<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0which distils family recipes, ideas from her travels in Sri Lanka, dishes that evolved because of the produce we have available in Australia\u00a0and her own ideas based on her broad-ranging training.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span> O Tama Carey’s new cookbook. Photo: Anson Smart\/Hardie Grant Books<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I want this book to be multi-purpose: a guide for those seeking a deeper understanding of Sri Lankan culture through food, a way to demystify the cuisine, and a starting point for you to cook Sri Lankan food and share it with your favourite people,” she writes.<\/span><\/p>\n

“But mostly I just want it to be a cookbook that you use so often it gets messy.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Her hottest tip:\u00a0have all your ingredients chopped, measured and ready before you start cooking.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span> O Tama Carey.\u00a0Photo: Anson Smart\/Hardie Grant Books<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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How to put together a Sri Lankan meal<\/span><\/h3>\n

Many of these recipes are designed to feed a group as part of a banquet, with the idea that each dish will be part of a larger rice and curry meal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n