Looking for Lamprais Catering in Scarborough? Here Is What We Make Instead

We do not make lamprais. Our ghee rice combos give guests rice with up to ten curries and sides, halal, roughly $20 to $30 per person (quoted on menu and headcount).

Blessed Kitchen does not make lamprais, for events or otherwise. If you want the thing people love about lamprais, a plate of fragrant rice with lots of different curries, sambols and a sweet finish, our ghee rice combos are the closest catering option we offer. For the full story on lamprais itself, read lamprais in Toronto.

Ghee rice spreads for your event

• Ghee Rice Combo 3 (10 dishes), roughly $20 to $30 per person (quoted on menu and headcount): ghee rice, hot masala chicken curry, Bengal masala T-bone steak, beans curry, eggplant moju, capsicum, acharu, maasi sambal and kithul watalappan.
• Ghee Rice Combo 1 (8 dishes), roughly $20 to $30 per person (quoted on menu and headcount): ghee rice, mutton kuruma, fried chicken, eggplant moju, pineapple curry, maasi sambal, potato milk curry, acharu and watalappan.
• Samba Ghee Rice Combo, roughly $20 to $30 per person (quoted on menu and headcount): samba ghee rice, roast beef devil, whole chicken korma, eggplant milk curry, maasi sambal, acharu, pineapple curry and watalappan.
• Ghee Rice Combo 5 (3 dishes), roughly $20 to $30 per person (quoted on menu and headcount): ghee rice with any meat and two vegetable dishes, for a simpler budget.

All combos have a 20 person minimum and all meat is HMA-certified halal. We cook fresh and pack it ready to serve; we do not staff events on site. See ghee rice in Scarborough and halal catering in Scarborough.

How to order

Call or text (647) 449-2924 with your date and headcount.

• Order direct from our kitchen for pickup or delivery. Ordering direct means no app markup on the menu.
• Call or text (647) 449-2924 to set up pickup or ask what is cooking this weekend.
• Feeding 20 or more? Get a quote for halal catering in Scarborough.

We are at 328 Passmore Avenue, Unit 59, Scarborough. Everything we cook is HMA-certified halal.

Planning a Sri Lankan rice spread instead

If you were hoping to give each guest a lamprais parcel, the closest experience we offer is a ghee rice plate with many curries. Ghee Rice Combo 3 gives every guest ten dishes on one plate, including Bengal masala T-bone steak and kithul watalappan. For a smaller budget, Ghee Rice Combo 5 (roughly $20 to $30 per person (quoted on menu and headcount)) is ghee rice with any meat and two vegetable dishes. Ask about our catering trays for 5 to 30 people (small feeds 5 to 8, medium 10 to 15, large 20 to 30).

Lamprais, piece by piece, and our nearest match

A traditional lamprais, from Sri Lanka's Burgher community, is rice cooked in meat stock with several accompaniments, wrapped in banana leaf and baked. We do not make it. But if you break it down, you can see which of our combo dishes play a similar role at your event:

• Rice cooked rich: lamprais rice is cooked in stock and spices. Our ghee rice is cooked in ghee with whole spices, a different method but the same festive weight.
• The meat curry: lamprais traditionally has a mixed meat curry. Mutton kuruma in Ghee Rice Combo 1 or beef kuruma in the Muthu Samba Ghee Rice Combo fills that spot.
• Brinjal moju: eggplant moju is in Ghee Rice Combo 1, Ghee Rice Combo 3, and the Saffron and Alternative Samba combos.
• Something fried: lamprais has frikkadels (fried meatballs). We do not make those, but fried chicken or fried whole chicken appears in several combos.
• A hot relish: seeni sambol is classic in lamprais. Our nearest is maasi sambol, made with dried Maldives fish, which is saltier and crunchier.

Budgeting a ghee rice spread

• 80 guests, Ghee Rice Combo 1: final pricing depends on your menu and headcount
• 80 guests, Ghee Rice Combo 5: final pricing depends on your menu and headcount

Food cost before tax and delivery. For the full background read what is lamprais.