Nalini Perera

Cooking Seafood Nalini Perera

Cooking Seafood is a short collection of authentic Sri Lankan recipes which include crab curry, shrimp curry, yellow fish curry, yet it's bolstered with mouth-watering innovations such as fried anchovies and deviled salted dried fish. These simple straightforward recipes and stories of Sri Lankan life will help cooks all over the world bring their families together around the table throughout the year.




Sri Lanka is a tropical island in the Indian Ocean known as 'Serendipity' or the 'Pearl of the Indian Ocean' to the ancient travelers of the West. Since these ancient times Sri Lanka has been famous for spices, tea, coconut, and precious gems. Its mystical beauty that spreads from the golden beaches to the hills with tea plantations gives a natural diversity to the native foods. This collection of recipes that have been passed down for generations show, how tasteful dishes could be made using coconut milk, herbs and a variety of spices