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    Sticky rice...

    Back to the old days, a lot of my diet, in fact my main part was
    Stickrice or "sticky ri" (pronounced sticky rye I had learned to cook
    and appreciate working with the Laotians (sp?).

    It's starting to make a showing in more than just Asian markets now and
    my kids love it so we have been making it again.

    Sticky ri is not the product of the cooking, it's the product you *are*
    cooking. Glutenous rice or Sweet rice is used, it is a bit different
    than "regular" rice and makes for great stick.

    I take two cups of sweet rice and put it in a bowl with 1 1/2 tsp sugar
    and 1/4 tsp salt, cover with water and soak overnight. Pour the excess
    water off, but do not rinse, then steam for 45 minutes loosely and
    tossing it a couple times during cooking to keep the texture consistent
    through out the dish.

    They make special cookers but I just use a wok and a basket suspended
    over a pool of water by putting a steaming rack or even crossing up some
    chopsticks to keep the basket suspended. Cover and steam for 45 minutes,
    like I said above, mixing it up here and there, maybe twice during
    cooking.

    When you are done you have a nice plate of "Sticky ri" ready for your
    dipping sauce, and this is after all what you made the rice for in the
    first place

    A typical sauce begins with the drippings and pan scrapings from the
    night before and can be made directly after eating the evening meal, in
    the same pan. Take the scrapings (especially the crispy burnt ones) and
    add some of the excess veggie and meat juice from the meal and heat it
    in a pan. Add some minced mushrooms, spinach, potato or anything that
    will add flavor and carry flavor, and add texture, basically what ever
    is left over from the meal. We are talking only a couple teaspoons all
    together of solids. Make sure your pan is on high and you have a
    stirring utensil available, I use wood as it won't harm the wok or pan
    when you start smashing the whole thing. Now take a clove of garlic, a
    hot pepper (very important, it's not sticky ri, if it's not spicy), and
    a bit of soy sauce, or any other flavorful sauce Next you need to smash
    them all together in the pan, turn it into a thick paste. Add a bit of
    salt to taste and then burn the whole thing black, again, if you aren't
    going to burn it, don't bother cooking it.... Add a bit of moisture
    here and there to keep it moist but burn it good.. That is key to the
    flavor.

    When this is done, typically we would just pour it into a piece of
    leftover tin foil and throw that package in with the rice for the next
    days consumption.

    Now the fun. Take a couple oz. chunk (a tiny handfull) and squeeze it in
    you fist to it forms a long thin snake that kind of looks like a huge
    grain of rice. Now dip the "worm" into the sauce and eat. The
    combination of hot spicy and mild rice are beautiful, one of my favorite
    snacks. Back in my single days, I lived on this stuff. About two cups a
    day, maybe two oz. of meat (one steak lasted over a week for me), and
    loads of fresh veggies (the biggest part of my food budget was fresh
    veggies, maybe three to 4 cups a day minimum). I would buy maybe one
    gallon of milk a week and sometimes, but rarely a loaf of bread. I was a
    hard core athlete back then and ate better than any of my friends, on
    less than 30 dollars a week that way. I wasted nothing from cooking, and
    I ate better than any of my American friends... Oh, and I had one wok,
    a couple bowls, and a rice basket for lunches... That was my kitchen in
    a nutshell, life was so simple then.

    Anyway, try it sometime, you will love it...

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    Sticky rice...

    On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:46:17 -0500, I_am_Tosk
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    I prefer medium grain rice and don't overdo the water. Salt is my
    only other ingredient. Not much, just a shake. This is done in the
    rice cooker.

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    Sticky rice...

    In article , [email protected]
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    Yeah, but with sticky rice, it's not about the rice. The rice is just a
    convenient way of consuming the leftovers and juices from the night
    before and taking in tasty low calorie energy during the day instead of
    say, a bag of chips or a big mac sandwich If you were going to have
    rice as your meal or as a part of the meal, you would also cook up some
    "regular" rice in the steamer for that.

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    Sticky rice...

    "sf" wrote


    Witch is the normal asian type. No clue what Tosk is talking about other
    than the dessert rice pudding almost sort, more seen in southern USA than
    asia.

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    Sticky rice...

    "I_am_Tosk" wrote
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    Tosk, not sure where you are from or what ethnic, but what you say matches
    not at all Asia. 'Sticky rice' is an engrish term for rice that is easy to
    pickup with chopsticks. Medium grain and no sugar is added.

    Once you add other things, it gets a different name. What you described was
    a vinegar-free sushi type or the basics for a sweet riceball (you hide
    edible treats of fruit or sweet beans inside).

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    Sticky rice...

    On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:26:13 -0500, "cshenk" wrote:


    Asian witch:
    http://www.lowbird.com/all/view/2010...lay-babes-4-10

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    Sticky rice...

    In article , cshenk1
    @cox.net says...

    No... What I describe is Stickyrice, that's what the Asians I worked
    with called it.. It's not regular rice, no matter how much you would
    like to consider yourself all knowing. It's made of glutenous rice, and
    is served almost like we would serve bread here in the US as a hand held
    medium for soaking up juices from your dinner... And is not really eaten
    outside Laos or Cambodia, and some parts of Thailand, and not even
    considered in Japan or China...

    It is not by any means meant to be the Carb of the dinner which is the
    rice you are thinking of... Think of it this way... In the US we might
    eat Meat, Rice/potaato, and vegetable as a dinner and a slice of bread
    on the side to soak up the juice. The Laotians I worked with would have
    Meat, Rice (standard rice, not sweet rice) and vegetable, with a bowl of
    sticky rice (not eaten with chopsticks at all, ever, it's eaten strictly
    with the hands like a slice of bread) and the juices from the night
    before cooking or that nights cooking heated down to a paste or for
    sopping up the juices from the current meal.

    It's just a different part of the meal all together, and a very
    different rice is used. You can see the difference immediately when you
    go to cook it, the grains are not shaped like standard rice grains, they
    are much shorter and stalkier, more like an egg than a snake... Just
    sayin'...

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    Sticky rice...

    In article ,
    [email protected] says...

    OH, and my daughter spent several years as a teacher "over there".. I
    know of what I speak... sorry to burst your bubble...

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    Sticky rice...

    In article , cshenk1
    @cox.net says...

    He means what he said, glutinous rice, aka sticky rice, well known in
    Thai cuisine. It's not long-grain rice OR (round-grain)pudding rice,
    neither of which are glutinous.

    Janet

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    Sticky rice...

    In article ,
    [email protected] says...

    I need to clarify that sticky rice is eaten with your hands. Typically a
    couple of oz is picked up and rolled between the hands to form a snake
    like you would do with playdoh as a kid. Typically a piece would be
    maybe 3/4 inches in diameter and two to three inches long.. Then dipped
    into the paste like you would dip a carrot into a veggie dip... Again,
    don't confuse it with the rice you have with your meal.. If you grabbed
    this with a chopstick, the whole chunk would come up in one piece, you
    tear your portion off in a chunk like you would tear a piece off a loaf
    of bread and then form "the worm". The stuff it very sticky..

 

 

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