Meet the refugee behind these memorable Sri Lankan cooking lessons-By Lee Tran Lam Nige Sithirasegaram learnt how to cook while in Australia’s detention centres. Now he’s sharing his culinary education with the community. Source:SBS Nige Sithirasegaram learnt how to cook during his six years in Australia’s detention centres. Now, the third-generation Sri Lankan fisherman shows you to recreate his dishes in your own home. “When I was a kid, I asked my mum a lot of questions about food,” says Nige Sithirasegaram, a cooking instructor at Melbourne’s Free To Feed social enterprise. As his mother prepared dishes, he’d quiz her on why she’d sprinkle salt, pour coconut milk and add blistering chilli — the key steps and ingredients that flavoured her Sri Lankan food. Sometimes the questions became overwhelming for her: “Get out of the kitchen!” she’d say. That didn’t stop him from eavesdropping on relatives and neighbours, as he tried to learn more about spices ...
Jan 23, 2021
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