Sticky Rice is known as Khao Niew in Thai language. This type of rice has special characteristic which is different from plain steamed rice. It has some gluey effect, meaning the rice can be easily made into ball shape and stay like that. It's basically a different type of rice where you should be able to buy from any Asian supermarket.
Sticky Rice is a basic dish for many parts of Thailand especially the North and North-eastern. Traditionally, the way to steam sticky rice is quite complicated and time consuming. A special bamboo basket is used to hold the sticky rice (raw) and placed on top of boiling pot. After 25-30 minutes of steaming, you will get a nice and soft sticky rice. But before that the sticky rice should be soaked overnight. And while steaming you should frequently stir the rice in the basket.
However, in Thailand we can easily buy cooked sticky rice every corner so many people don't really want to cook by ourselves due to the time and energy required. We can easily buy 5 baht of sticky rice and that fills up our stomach for half a day.
Sticky rice can also be cooked using a microwave. Many of the Thais who live abroad have been cooking Sticky Rice with Microwaves for long time ago. Here's how I do it.
Ingredients (4 servings)
2 cups sticky rice
2 1/4 cups water
(water should cover 1 cm over the rice level, so you can adjust the amount of water depending on your bowl)
How to cook:
- Rinse Sticky rice with water 2-3 times
- Pre-soak the rice in a big soup bowl (microwavable) for 30 minutes
- Microwave 7 minutes at HIGH
- Bring out the bowl and use the fork to let the air into the rice so it doesn't stay too sticky
- Put back into the microwave on HIGH for another 2 minutes, bring out and work with the fork again
- Microwave another 2 minutes on HIGH, you should get a nice and soft sticky rice by microwave
Although cooking Sticky Rice with Microwave is not as dry as the bamboo basket, but in general it's softer and much faster to cook. Let's try.
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