Sri Lanka

Lamprais

Name: Lamprais
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Sri Lanka
Ingredients: 400 g Rice (cooked in stock); 400 g Mixed meat curry (chicken/beef); 8 Meatballs (frikkadels); some of each Seeni sambol & blachan; some Curry leaves & spices; 4 Banana leaves

Sri Lankan Burgher banana-leaf rice parcel

Lamprais traces back to Sri Lanka's Dutch Burghers; the name derives from the Dutch “lomprijst” (lump of rice).

Rice, a mixed curry, meatballs (frikkadels), blachan and sambol are packed together in a banana leaf and baked - everything melds into one aroma.

Servings4

Time120 min

LevelAdvanced

Ingredients

Rice (cooked in stock)400 g
Mixed meat curry (chicken/beef)400 g
Meatballs (frikkadels)8
Seeni sambol & blachansome of each
Curry leaves & spicessome
Banana leaves4

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Cook the rice in spiced stock.
Prepare the mixed meat curry and meatballs.
Portion rice, curry, meatballs, sambol and blachan.
Pack everything into a banana leaf and seal.
Warm the parcels in the oven until the aromas meld.

Make it original

Curry leaves and spices for lamprais are in the Asia Boutique.

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