15/07/2026
🥬 Elawalu Roti — Sri Lanka’s Vegetable Roti
Soft flatbread folded around a spiced vegetable filling potato, carrot, leeks, onion, green chilli, all tossed together and packed inside. Simple, filling, and full of flavour. Bite into a good one and the chilli lets you know it’s there. 🌶️
This is our everyday snack. Tea time, evening hunger, long bus rides elawalu roti shows up for all of it. ☕
You’ll find it in every bakery here, and sometimes the choon paan bike brings it too 🎶 you hear that tune, you run out, and if you’re lucky there’s still roti left in the box.
Wife made a batch today. I was on tasting duty. 😋