Cheat’s Sticky Rice
A shortcut glutinous rice dish with Chinese sausage, mushrooms, shrimp and chestnuts, cooked together for savory, sticky comfort without wrapping dumplings.
Prep 15 min · Cook 30 min · Total 12 hr 55 min · Makes 6 servings
Ingredients
- 3 cups glutinous rice, soaked for 3 hours and drained
- Handful dried shrimp, soaked for 10 minutes
- 3 Chinese sausage links, sliced
- 10 dried shitake mushrooms, soaked for an hour and sliced
- 1 cup dried chestnuts, soaked overnight and drained
- 4 medium cloves garlic, minced
- Seasoning
- 1 teaspoon Better than Bouillon Chicken Base
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 2 teaspoon sesame oil
- Optional Garnish
- Freshly roasted peanuts
- Fried shallot crisps
- Minced spring onions
- Fresh cilantro
- Sambal Oelek or Sriracha if you like it hot
Directions
Combine all the ingredients and seasonings in whichever cooking vessel you’re using, such as a steamer, microwave-safe dish, pressure cooker, or rice cooker. Pour in 3 cups of water, counting the reserved soaking liquid from the dried shrimp and mushrooms as part of that amount, then cook it the way you normally cook rice. Add the garnishes and dig in.