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“A BLESSED VEGETABLE” – by Des Kelly It was just about time. A video about my favourite vegetable, I remember them as Ladies Fingers or Bandakkas, which came to us in Ceylon, in plenty, only you had to snip off the pointed little end of each one to find out if it was either ‘lappati’ or ‘morala’. The lappati ones were tender, the others were rough and not fit for cooking. Like a lot of experienced cooks, my dear mum was considered an excellent one, and would cook twenty or thirty of these little lappati, punchi bandakkas simply boiled in creamy gravy c/w a variety of spices, ending up in a most delicious vegetable curry, OR would first fry them in good old coconut oil, then cook them. We called this lot simply bandakka-thel-dhala, and my mouth waters, just thinking about this vegetable. The manner in which I describe it. ...