Nguyên Liệu

Vietnamese usually serve ordinary rice for meals. Stick rice is a special kind of flutinous rice which becomes sticky when cooked. It can be served alone for breakfast or it can go with some grilled or baked meat dishes. It is available at Chinese grocery stores. We cook plain sticky rice, sticky rice with coconut milk, or sticky rice with assorted sauteed meat.

Plain sticky rice

Use 2 cups uncooked sticky rice for 6 servings. Wash the rice 2 to 3 times, ađ 1/4 teaspoon salt, then stir thoroughlỵ Cook in a six cup pan with 2 2/3 cups water. Keep boiling for 3 minutes, then pour off water. Cover and continue cooking over very low heat for 30 minutes.

Sticky rice with coconut milk

To prepare sticky rice with coconut milk, cook sticky rice as above indicated. Ađ 4 to 5 tablespoons heavy coconut milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar after pouring off water, and continue cooking over low heat for 30 min

Serve with chicken which has been grilled over charcoal.

NOTES: Since glutinous rice is not easy to cook for the first time it can be steamed to make certain that you will have perfect sticky rice, not too wet, not too dry

Cách Làm

Soak overnight 2 cups of glutinous rice, then steam over medium heat, it will be done within 30 to 45 min. To prepare sticky rice with coconut milk, pour 4 tablespoons coconut milk over steamed sticky rice and continue steaming 5 more min.