Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, steamed sweet rice / sticky rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Steamed Sweet Rice / Sticky Rice is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Steamed Sweet Rice / Sticky Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature. Also known as "sweet rice" or glutinous rice (though it's gluten free), sticky rice is a large white grain that becomes translucent, shiny and extremely sticky when steamed. Sticky rice is a staple in Laos, where it is especially beloved, but it has ardent fans throughout Asia.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook steamed sweet rice / sticky rice using 2 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Steamed Sweet Rice / Sticky Rice:
- Take 1 cup Sticky rice
- Take Water
The Thai variety has a longer grain than Japanese or Chinese sweet rice. Although in Thailand sticky rice is steamed in long funnel-like baskets, our method, even if it's not strictly authentic, gives extremely delicious rice and is much easier to make. Important: Black sticky rice does bleed when it is steamed, so make sure you use cheese cloth or a separate steaming basket for black rice versus when you are making the usual white sticky rice. As in the traditional method, you must wash the rice thoroughly to remove the excess starch from the outside of the rice otherwise you will end up with the rice all stuck together.
Steps to make Steamed Sweet Rice / Sticky Rice:
- Pour sticky rice in a bowl and rinse it twice with water.
- After rinsing, put about 2 cups of water to cover the rice and soak at least 4 hours or overnight for best results.
- Put 3 cups of water in a rice cooker pot.
- Put the streamer tray in the pot.
- Strain water from the soaking rice.
- Put the rice in the steamer tray. It's ok if a little of the rice falls through into the water.
- Set the rice cooker into steam mode to cook it and push start.
Sticky rice is a versatile ingredient used in many forms of Asian cooking. In addition to many savory dishes you may be familiar with, like zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) or shumai, sticky rice (also called sweet rice or glutinous rice) is also used in dessert recipes. Glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa; also called sticky rice, sweet rice or waxy rice) is a type of rice grown mainly in Southeast and East Asia, Northeastern India and Bhutan which has opaque grains, very low amylose content, and is especially sticky when cooked. It is widely consumed across Asia. It is called glutinous (Latin: glūtinōsus) in the sense of being glue-like or sticky.
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