Sri lankan kadalai thel dela (devilled chickpeas), with kinda recipe, because so many of you have been nice in this sub

Ok, first of all – I know most of you won't cook this, you're Buldak people. I'm fine with that. But this sub has been so incredibly kind to me when I stumbled in here and started posting Sri Lankan food.

(Note for clarity: I am not Sri Lankan, I am Swedish, but I live here. I would dare to say I have adopted this cuisine as fully as I can – it makes no sense having this amazing produce and trying to reinvent the wheel, when people here knows how to cook – I cook 95% Sri Lankan, and about 5% North Indian, when my fiancé longs for home.)

Anyway. Sir lankan devilled chickpeas, kadalai thel dala (sp! Sorry, I dont get it right all the time).

There are many ways of doing it. Mine is very much like the guy who cycles Marine Drive in Colombo, and sometimes stands outside the sareee shop in Wellawatte, outside that saree shop.

Three installments.

Fresh stuff: chop some coconut in slivers, chop some spring onion in bits. Leaves in bits, onion in slivers.

Fry some dried chilies and curry leaves (you can find them in south Indian shops both, if you have them), it takes about 10 seconds if you deep fry, 20 if you shallow fry. A sieve might help.p

Then chop an onion, about 3 cloves of garlic, aome more curry leaves, chop them closely, and fry them in 3 tbsp of coconut oil. When they start to look translucent, add the chili paste.

Sorry you all, this is where we get local.

Sri lankan chili paste is shrimp, onion, garlic, chili,spices, all deep dried. Think of it like our angry lady. Add a spoon, add the chickpeas, and behold the jammy food. Salt. Some lime juice.

You can add carrots to make healthy.