Sweet Rice Steamer
Boil two or three inches of water in a wok or large pot and set the steamer over it.
Sweet rice steamer. Make sticky rice dumplings with prepared sticky rice chicken and seasonings. Steam another five minutes and it s ready to eat. The thai variety has a longer grain than japanese or chinese sweet rice. Cover rice with 2 to 3 inches cold water in a large bowl and soak at room temperature at least 3 hours.
Drain the soaked rice and pour it into a steamer basket. Use sticky rice to make a layer cake dessert or the classic thai favorite mango rice. Excellent sticky rice 40 minutes later once water is boiling. 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.
When i was little my mom got a rice steamer one year for christmas and made this sweet rice or as i like to call it now instant pot sweet rice. Pot ð 10 dia 8 5 ht. Make sure the rice doesn t dip down into the water. Covered in both cases with a lit from another pot works just fine.
The hand woven bamboo basket sits in the aluminum rice pot to create perfect aromatic thai jasmine sticky sweet rice. Combine 1 1 2 cups of day old leftover sticky rice with 1 beaten egg and salt to taste. No other steaming method creates sticky rice like this authentic set. Stir the rice so that the top layer is at the bottom of the steamer and vice versa.
Once boiling we put the basked in the sink pour out rice water into basked level out place on pot for 20 min take basked to sink and flip rice over takes time and skill and then place on pot for another 20 min. A foolproof method for cooking sticky rice. Also known as glutinous rice or sweet rice this type of grain sticks together when cooked. Some more high end chinese and japanese rice cookers have special settings for it but most don t have that feature.
Here are a few ideas. Sticky rice may be used in a variety of dishes including desserts stir fry dishes and in dumplings. Drain rice and put in a steamer basket see cooks note below lined with. Cover and steam for 20 minutes.
Basket ð 10 ht. 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. It was a real treat in our house because i had never had rice like this before. Put the rice steamer with the rice into the mouth of the steamer pot making sure that the water is well clear of the bottom of the steamer.
Set a timer for 10 minutes. I fell in love with this instant pot sweet rice that day and have loved it ever since. Cooking sweet rice or glutinous rice is somewhat different than cooking regular rice. Cover the top of the rice with a saucepan lid or bamboo cover.