Lamprais
The Dutch Burgher parcel: rice and curry baked inside a banana leaf until the leaf's perfume soaks the grains — Colombo's Sunday treasure.
What it is
The Dutch Burgher parcel: rice and curry baked inside a banana leaf until the leaf's perfume soaks the grains — Colombo's Sunday treasure. Ingredients: rice cooked in stock, chicken or mixed-meat curry, frikkadels (meatballs), blachan (shrimp paste), ash plantain curry, seeni sambol, eggplant pickle, banana leaves. Recipe: 1) Cook rice in rich stock. 2) Prepare the curries and sides in miniature. 3) Wrap a portion of everything in a banana leaf into a neat parcel. 4) Bake until the leaf darkens and the rice absorbs its aroma. Serve: one parcel per person, opened at the table in a cloud of scent. Flavor: layered, spiced, banana-leaf smoked. History: lamprais (from Dutch lomprijst) came through the Dutch colonial period and was perfected by Sri Lanka's Burgher community — it survives as their culinary flag. See also: Rice and Curry (Sri Lankan), Hoppers (Appa).
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