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The Tamil–Dutch Luxury Dish, Later Refined in the British Crown Era
A 400-Year-Old Heritage Recipe, Reborn in Britain
LumpRice™ is a rare Tamil–Dutch heritage dish—banana-leaf-wrapped rice with heritage curries, sambal and cutlet, traditionally double-cooked to bring together its distinctive flavours and aromas.
No restaurant shortcuts. No modern curry pastes.
Just authentic Crown Curry craftsmanship, made fresh in limited batches.
£24.99 £19.99 INTRODUCTORY OFFER
This is NOT a Biriyani
LumpRice™ — A Tamil Dish Transformed Through Dutch and British Crown Kitchens
While curry—the Tamil word that entered the English language—travelled west with the Company, this distinctive Crown-era curry tradition continued to develop in Ceylon: banana-leaf wrapped, multi-curry, and remarkably different from the biryani Britain knows today.
A luxurious festive dish featuring samba rice, slowly cooked in aromatic stock, accompanied by rich mutton curry, fried chicken, a spiced fish cutlet, tangy aubergine moju, a boiled or fried egg, and house-made sambal.
Each element is traditionally prepared separately before being brought together and wrapped in fragrant banana leaf. Refined through Dutch and later British Crown kitchens, this European-adapted Tamil masterpiece brings together multiple curries, textures and flavours in one distinctive meal.
£24.99 £19.99 INTRODUCTORY OFFER
Limited weekly batch — hand-made to order.
The Story Behind LumpRice™ and Crown Curry
As Company-era curry travelled west to Britain, another chapter of curry history was unfolding in the East.
Sake Dean Mahomed arrived in Britain in 1786 and later opened the Hindoostane Coffee House in London in 1810.
Meanwhile, from 1796, the British Crown took control of Dutch Ceylon, inheriting a curry culture already shaped through centuries of Tamil, Portuguese and Dutch influence.
Later in 1858, Crown rule extended to the former East India Company territories in India.
For nearly 200 years, these two stories of curry never truly met in Britain—until now.
What Britain often remembers is the curry that travelled West - Company Curry.
What is easily overlooked is the curry tradition that continued to evolve under the Crown in the East - Crown Curry.
Perhaps the answer to Britain’s curry crisis isn’t another new curry—but rediscovering the Crown Curry history Britain missed.
Curated, researched, and presented by Ravi Maniam ACMA, CGMA — author of Curry Heritage of the Tamils and founder of Tamil Crown Curry. His forthcoming second book, Ancient Tamil Curry to the Great British Curry Crisis, will be published soon.