How To Cook Milk Rice and Lunumiris

 As a Sri Lankan, what we eat for celebrations as the main food is Milk Rice with Lunumiris. It is a very tasty treat for your mouth, the taste of milk with rice and along with a hot traditional chili paste (lunu-miris) gives wonders to your taste buds. It is my duty and will be my pleasure to teach you how to cook milk rice from home.


                           The making of the chilli paste (lunu-miris)    lunu = salt, miris = chili








Things you need:

10 dried chilies
50g of red onion (small onion)
3 table spoons Maldive fish/cured tuna (ground)
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon lime



                                                 

Method:

Add the dry red chilies, the maldive fish and the onions along with the salt into the grinder/blender. Now blend them well until a thick red paste is fromed.
Empty the contents into a bowl and add the lime and mix it well. Now you have you chili paste or lunu-miris.

                        


                             
                                The making of the milk rice ( Kiri-bath)    kiri = milk,  bath = rice
                           

        Things you need                                                  

        500g white rice raw

        coconut milk
        salt

Method:

 Divide the coconut milk in two separate bowls in which one bowl should be dilute coconut milk and the other has thick/concentrated coconut milk.
 Wash the rice well, place it in the rice-cooker and add the dilute coconut milk until the dilute coconut milk is 1- 1.5 inches above the rice.
 When the rice is cooked halfway, add the thick or concentrated coconut milk into the rice cooker and let it be cooked to the end.
 Now you have finished cooking your milk rice.
 For presentation you can put it in a plate and cut cubes and when eating mix it with the lunu-miris well.

ENJOY THE TASTE OF SRI LANKA!!