Cheat’s Sticky Rice
Since most of the work (and headache) in making rice dumplings is in individually prepping ingredients and wrapping parcels, my mom simply assembles the raw ingredients and tosses the lot…
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
- Mix all the ingredients and seasonings in your cooking vessel of choice (steamer, microwave, pressure cooker, rice cooker, etc.).
- Add 3 cups of water (include reserved soaking liquid from the dried shrimp and mushrooms) and cook as you would rice.
- Garnish and enjoy!