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 sautéed meat.
Plain sticky rice
Use 2 cups uncooked sticky rice for 6 servings. Wash the rice
2 to 3 times, add 1/4 teaspoon salt, then stir thoroughly. 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. Add 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
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.
