Cooking Contest || Week-10 || Prove yourself as the Best Ladies Chef on the Steemit Platform.

Hello ladies..

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First of all I would like to thank @shiftitamanna and @steemforladies community for organizing such a testy contest. So let's make a Srilankan traditional food recipe today.

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01. What is the name of the dish that you have made this week? And why did you choose this dish?

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MILK RICE

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The reason I chose this dish for the contest was because it is the best dish associated with Sri Lankan culture.

Milk rice is considered as a divine food gifted by our ancestors to protect the health of future generations. It is also considered as the national food of Sri Lanka.

In fact, Sri Lankans consider milk rice as a symbol of prosperity and at the beginning of any auspicious activity, they start the work by making and eating milk rice.This is actually a healthy and nutritious food.

When making milk rice, housewives prepare milk rice in various ways. Adding natural sweeteners and grains increases the nutritional quality. (Rampeh, cardamom) Milk is prepared by adding coconut milk and salt to red raw rice or white raw rice.

The ingredients added while preparing milk rice can enhance its taste.

Health benefit of milk rice

• If milkrice is prepared from red brown rice or white rice such as suvadal (local rice), we get a very rich food with prebiotics (dietary fiber) that improve the beneficial microbial activity that is very important for our food system and many nutrients needed by the body.

• Coconut milk is a very nutritious food because of the medium chain fatty acids it contains.

• In a cup of coconut milk,

  -medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) 240 mg
  -protein. 5g
  -Dietary fiber 5 g
   -calories.  570
  

• Cardamom is a natural flavoring agent added to milk rice. Cardamom has been found to help relieve problems related to the digestive system such as indigestion, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and cramps. Cardamom is also very good for improving the health of the digestive system.

02. What is the process of making it? (Share steps with ingredients)

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INGREDIENTS

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• Raw rice - 400g
• Cups of condensed coconut milk - 02 1/2 , 03
• Salt - 02 teaspoons
• Cups of water - 03/0

Step 01

Wash the raw rice well and put it in the rice cooker. Add water until the rice is covered and cook this raw rice in the same way as you normally cook rice.

After the raw rice is cooked well, add coconut milk to it.

Step 02

Then mix well and add some salt.
Stir this milk rice every now and then until you remove it from the heat.

After about 15 minutes, when all the milk has evaporated and the curd rice has become curdled, remove it from the stove.
Now thin this milk rice on a board or a plate and cut it into pieces.

03. How much did it cost you to make this dish in your country? (specify including steem price)

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• 280.00 Srilankan rupees will be spent for this.

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iteam	Cost in LKR	Cost in STEEM
Row rice 1kg	170.00	1.65
Coconut 01	100.00	0.97
Salt 01	60.00	0.58

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Thank you for reading...💜💜
I invite @pandora2010, @patjewell and @shohana1.