Steamed Sweet Rice / Sticky Rice. Cooking sweet rice or glutinous rice is somewhat different than cooking regular rice. You need less water to cook it, which makes steaming a better Add the sticky rice to a mixing bowl or other deep container. Sticky rice, a.k.a. glutinous rice, is a sweet Asian rice that becomes sticky when cooked.

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. If you're a fan of Thai food, I'm sure you're familiar with sticky rice. You can have Steamed Sweet Rice / Sticky Rice using 2 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Steamed Sweet Rice / Sticky Rice

It's 1 cup of Sticky rice.
You need of Water.

There is something so special about its chewy texture and sweet flavor. If you have a desire to make it in your own kitchen but don't have the proper tools such as a traditional bamboo basket or stackable steamer. According to Thai tradition sticky rice can put you fast asleep if more than a couple handfuls are eaten. It is meant to be formed into small balls that you make with your I bought this because I wanted to make the Thai dessert "sweet sticky rice with mangoes" that I always get at Thai restaurants.

Steamed Sweet Rice / Sticky Rice step by step

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 usually steamed in the early morning, then stuffed into a specific sticky rice basket called a kradib khao neow (กระติ๊บข้าวเหนียว), and the same batch is eaten throughout the day. The basket is made from thin slivers of bamboo, all weaved together in a tight cylinder basket with a lid. Suman Sa Lihiya is a Filipino sweet sticky rice cake steamed in a banana leaf. It has wonderful chewy, gooey, sticky texture which comes from treating the rice in lihiya, or lye water. Unfortunately, lye water is not easy to find in the U.