Burgher Legacy · Rice Parcel
Lamprais
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Its name comes from the Dutch 'lomprijst', a packet or lump of rice — though the dish as eaten today, with its curries and sambol, is very much a Sri Lankan Burgher creation.
Rice cooked in meat stock is packed with a mix of curries, a frikkadel (meatball), and seeni sambol, wrapped tightly in a banana leaf and baked. It's sold by the packet at bakeries and Burgher-run eateries.
Why it's made this way: Lamprais is a Dutch Burgher dish, kept by that community, descended from Dutch, Portuguese and Sri Lankan intermarriage, as a Sunday and special-occasion tradition, and it is now sold widely by bakeries and caterers.
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