Lampries

A community recipe by Himashi

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Introduction

It's a Sri Lankan Recipe...soooYummy..

Ingredients

Serves: 24

onions
rice
cloves
black peppercorns
salt
pandanus
curry leaves
lemongrass
coconut milk
butter / ghee
oil

Method

Lampries is a community recipe submitted by Himashi and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Put 1 tablespoon ghee to pan.

To that add crushed cardomoms & cloves,cinnamon .

Add onions & curry leaves,Pandanus , lemon grass.

Now put the strained & washed rice to that temper. (For 1 tin of rice put 2.5 tins of chicken stock) Add a little salt to the rice. Now cover & cook & take off fire.

When the rice & other related lumpries curries are cooked have ready pieces of plaintain leaves , 14"*12" , & make it stiff by holding it to fire.

Put about 3 tbs of rice on each leaf, & pour thick coconut milk over the rice, arrange a little meat curry, & a few frickkadels (little cutlets).

Fold up the plaintain leaf making them into neat oblong parcels & fasten the two ends with a piece of string.

Bake in the oven in moderately hot temperature for 30 mintues.

Additional Information

1.5 measures of rice is sufficient for 24 lampries. Before using the plaintain leaves they must be washed & wiped & warmed over fire. Related items for the Lumpries will be: Brinjals curry, Seeni Sambol, Frickkadels,a meat curry (chicken or mutton)