Sri Lanka, serves hundreds of dishes that are typically authentic to the region. Most of these authentic dishes of Sri Lanka are now being converted as street foods into easy to make and versions of them. Even though some of them are deliciously nutritious some of them are considered to be having a bulk amount of oil and starch which makes it super tasty. These street foods are a must try in Batticaloa.
Odiyal kool - a spicy soup
Odiyal kool is a spicy soup that is made out of various vegetables and seafood and palmyrah tuber starch is used as a thickening agent for this traditional soup. This soup gets its seat with an overloaded addition of crabs or crablets most of the time. Odiyal, is a dried form of palmyrah tubers. Palmyrah seeds are planted on elevated sand humps to harvest these tubers and they are dried and processed into a powder form. This starchy powder is used as the thickening agent in these odiyal kool.
Mutton babath
Babath is a thick soup that is made out of the stomach and intestines of goats. These super spicy soups are made with a mix of vegetables along with tiny pieces of chopped offels. Among many places to buy this soup, here is a place that is visited by many young people from the region during evening time. These mutton babath soups are a street food that should not be missed by visitors to Batticaloa.
