Milk Rice with Lunu Miris

 

Ingredients

·         3 cups of White or Red Kekulu Rice

·         4 cups of thick coconut milk

·         Red chili pieces

·         Maldive fish pieces

·         Chopped shallots

·         Water

·         Salt and Lime juice as per taste

Instructions

1.       Wash the rice and put into a clay pot and add water and salt.

2.       Boil it in medium heat until the water is absorbed to rice and is soft.

3.       Then add coconut milk and stir well.

4.       Simmer on low heat until the coconut milk is absorbed to the rice.

5.       Take off the mixture from the heat and put to a flatten pan/ plate and let it cool

6.       Then cut into pieces as per your wish.

7.       For Lunu miris (chili paste); put red chili pieces, chopped shallots, maldive fish chunks together    into a Mortar and grind using pestle or grind the mixture using grinding stone.   

8.      Move the mixture into a plastic or glass bowl and add Lime juice and salt as per the taste.

9.       Now your milk rice and lunu miris (chili paste) is ready to serve.