Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Way to Coastal Curries make their Navratna Taj Samudra, Colombo

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The delicious Coastal Curries of India are popular amongst many diners at Taj Samudra Colombo and therefore a festival of these signature dishes is perfectly in order this September. Aromatical­ly attractive, creatively unique and markedly authentic the Navratna restaurant serves delectable coastal curries.

Celebrated for being one of the most flavor infused and aro-

matic cuisines of the world, Indian food is truly distinctiv­e with its magnificen­t blend of spicy, sweet, tangy and heady sauces. Navratna restaurant gallops diner’s taste buds into a sprint on a gastronomi­cal journey of authentic Indian Cuisine and deciphers the finest flavours of Indian Food on the island.

The range of curries varies from sea food, meat, and poultry to vegetarian. For those who love prawns the Chingri Macher Malai Curry is a fresh lagoon prawn curry cooked in coconut cream which is a Bengali specialty, while the Chemmeen Moilee is a lagoon prawn dish sim- mered in coconut m milk. Kozhi Melagu Curry is tender morsels of chicken in a curry spiked with pepper, while the Lamb Vindaloo is lamb and potatoes cooked together in a tangy and spiced curry served up from the shores of Goa.

For vegetarian aficionado­s, Puchakkari Kuruma is an assortment of vegetables cooked in cashew coconut gravy while Mushroom Thiyal is button mushrooms and small onions cooked in smooth coconut gravy. The Coastal Curries promotion is on till the end of September.

For more details call 011 244 66 22.

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