Glutinous Rice In Lotus Rice

I still have some glutinous rice left from making the Mango sticky rice. I didn't want to waste that 800g of glutinous rice until the next mango season!

I was thinking what I can make with glutinous rice. Ok, why not glutinous rice in lotus leaf? And I have a nice pot of braised pork belly simmering in the kitchen. So I decided to mix the rice with the braised pork belly and let them steam for an hour. Wow, it was really fragrant with the lotus leaf. Oh yes, please add some salt, oyster sauce or soy sauce (with the glutinous rice, braised pork belly and sauce), otherwise it will taste bland as the pork belly sauce isn't salty enough to cover 500g of rice! That is why I added 1 tsp of salt while mixing everything.

Ingredients:

500g glutinous rice (soaked for 3 hrs)
30g dried shrimps (washed)
4 lotus leaves (cooked with hot water for a minute and continue to soak for a minute before removing)
6 dried mushroom (soaked till soften, sliced thinly)
8 pieces of braised pork belly (pls look at my Braised Pork Belly Recipe)
400ml of braised sauce (pls look at my Braised Pork Belly Recipe)
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp cooking oil

Garnish:
Fried shallots
Chopped spring onions

Methods:

1. After soaking for 3 hours, drain the glutinous rice and set aside.

2. Heat the oil in a non stick pan. Sauté the dried shrimps.

3. Add the dried mushrooms and sauté.

4. Add the braised pork belly, sauce and salt into the pan. Let it boil and turn the heat.

5. Add the glutinous rice into the pan and mix well. After a while, the sauce should have dried up in the pan. Turn off the heat and let it cool.

6. Wipe the lotus leaves dry. Divide the rice mixture into 4. Carefully place 1/4 of the rice onto each leaf. Wrap like an envelope. You may secure it with toothpicks.

7. Steam for an hour. Sprinkle with fried shallot and spring onions!

Sticky Rice With Mango

My all time fave dessert would be this Sticky Rice with Mango! I must say the best Sticky Rice with Mango I have eaten was in Thailand.

With minimum of ingredients, it is very easy to make this dessert at home.

Serve 1 or 2

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of glutinous rice (I use rice cup)
1 pack of coconut milk
1 tsp salt
3 tbsp sugar
1 mango (cubed)

Methods:

1. Soak the glutinous rice with water overnight.

2. Steam the glutinous rice for about 30 minutes.

3. In the meanwhile, heat the coconut milk with low heat. Stir slowly. DO NOT BOIL THE MILK.

4. Add the salt and sugar. Keep stirring.

5. Taste the coconut milk if it is sweet enough for you. It's ok to be sweeter because it will taste less sweet with the sticky rice. Turn off the heat and set aside.

6. When the glutinous rice is ready, add 3 ~ 4 tbsp of coconut milk into the rice and mix well. Cover and leave it for 10 minutes.

7. Place the mango and sticky rice of the plate. Drizzle some coconut milk on the rice (and mangoes if prefer).

May add some pandan leaves in the coconut milk during the heating process.