Halal Sri Lankan Breakfast in Scarborough

Puttu, roast bread with egg-milk curry and coconut roti: the Sri Lankan breakfast-style plates we make in Scarborough.

A Sri Lankan breakfast is soft, coconut-heavy and built around something to mop up curry with. At Blessed Kitchen in Scarborough we make a handful of these plates, all HMA-certified halal and cooked from scratch. One honest note first: we do not make hoppers or plain string hoppers. Here is what we do make.

What to order

• Puttu Mixed ($20). Rice flour layered with fresh coconut and steamed in a tube, served with your choice of meat, dhal curry and coconut sambol. A Jaffna favourite.
• Jaffna Moor Puttu (on request) with any meat, potato milk curry and red onion sambal, and Keerai Puttu (on request) with greens.
• Roast Bread ($13) with coconut sambal and egg-milk curry. Simple, warm and very Sri Lankan.
• Coconut Roti ($12) with beef curry and dhal curry.
• Mango Lassi ($6) on the side.

How to eat it like at home

Break the puttu or tear the roti, spoon over the curry and dhal, and add a little coconut sambol with each bite. The coconut cools the heat of the curry, and the dhal ties it together. If you want something heavier, add a chicken devil or a kottu roti.

When we cook

We are a weekend kitchen, with pickup on Saturday and Sunday. Call or text before you head over if you want to check what is ready. See also our weekend Sri Lankan takeout.

How to order

• Order direct from our kitchen for pickup or delivery, with no app markup.
• Call or text (647) 449-2924. We are at 328 Passmore Avenue, Unit 59, Scarborough.
• Feeding 20 or more? See halal catering in Scarborough.

Everything we cook is HMA-certified halal.

A slow Sunday order

One Puttu Mixed, one Roast Bread and two Mango Lassis feed two people for about $45 before tax.

Breakfast words, explained

• Puttu: steamed rice flour and coconut, soft and crumbly.
• Keerai: greens. Keerai Puttu has them mixed through the layers.
• Moor: Jaffna Moor Puttu is named for Sri Lanka's Moor community, the island's Muslim community. Ours comes with any meat, potato milk curry and red onion sambal.
• Roast bread: a Sri Lankan bakery loaf, toasted.
• Pol roti: coconut roti, a flatbread with grated coconut in the dough.
• Milk curry: a gentle curry cooked in coconut milk. Our potato milk curry and the egg-milk curry with roast bread are both this style.
• Sambol: a relish. Coconut sambol is fresh coconut with chilli and lime; red onion sambal is sharper.

Mildest to boldest

For kids or anyone new to this food, start with Roast Bread ($13). The egg-milk curry is gentle and you decide how much sambal goes on. Puttu Mixed ($20) sits in the middle, depending on the meat you pick. Coconut Roti ($12) with beef curry is the heartiest plate of the three.

A bigger weekend table

For five people: two Puttu Mixed ($40), two Roast Bread ($26) and one Coconut Roti ($12) come to $78 before tax. Add a Mango Lassi at $6 for anyone who wants something cold. Put everything in the middle and let people mix and match. Note that the egg-milk curry contains egg and the lassi contains dairy. More on puttu is on our puttu page.