Lamprais: A traditional Sri Lanka burgher dish, Lamprais, cooked in a banana leaf
Lamprais: A traditional Sri Lanka burgher dish, Lamprais, cooked in a banana leafDan arndt (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dan_arndt) — Own work via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALamprais_%282%29.jpg)CC BY-SA 4.0
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Lamprais

A Sri Lankan dish introduced by the country’s Dutch Burgher population. Its name derives from the Dutch lomprijst, meaning a packet or lump of rice, and it is believed to have roots in the Indonesian lemper.

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Lamprais is an Anglicised derivative of the Dutch word lomprijst, which loosely translated means a packet or lump of rice, and it is also believed the dish has roots in the Indonesia dish lemper.

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