Sticky Rice, also known as Glutinous rice, is on the menu today. This dual-purpose dish is a delightfully helpful addition to anyone’s repertoire of recipes. It easily accommodates a vegetarian or meat-eating palate. Combining the black-eyed peas (beans) with the chicken adds necessary dietary fiber, which is found to be lacking in chicken. This supplementing provides essential nutrients for a balanced diet. Another quality of glutinous rice is its ability to be molded into shapes, a handy attribute for food presentation. Glutinous rice is a rich carbohydrate food.
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5 People
20 minutes Note that time does not include soaking glutinous rice and black eye peas overnight.
30 minutes
Day 1 Pre-preparation Steps:
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Ingredients
5 fresh long pandan leaves (2 ½ leaves to flavor water to soak rice and 2 ½ to cook rice)
500 g glutinous rice (washed)
120 g black-eyed peas
Directions
- Boil 2 ½ pandan leaves in 3 cups of water for 10 minutes. Leave to cool.
- Add the pandan liquid to the washed glutinous rice and set it aside to soak overnight.
- Wash and soak the peas, covered in water, overnight.
Chicken Option:
Ingredients
300 g chicken (sliced breast or thigh)
2 fresh ginger slices
5 mushrooms (Soak in water till soft and cut into slices)
1 spring onion (cut into small pieces)
1 tbsp oil
Sticky Rice Sauce Ingredients:
Ingredients
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 ½ tsp salt
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Chicken Marinade Sauce:
Ingredients
1 tbsp ginger juice
1 tbsp cooking wine
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 ½ tsp soy sauce
1 tsp salt
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp honey
Day 2 — Preparation steps:
Directions
- Drain the pandan/rice flavored water from the glutinous rice into a bowl using a strainer. Discard the pandan leaves. Measure 185 ml of this pandan/rice water and set it aside.
- Place chicken in a bowl and mix in the marinade sauce. Set aside for 20 minutes.
- Boil the soaked peas in 3 cups of water until soft. Drain water and set it aside.
Method to fry chicken:
Directions
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan until hot. Add ginger and fry until fragrant.
- Stir in chicken and fry until cooked. Take out and put aside.
Method to fry sticky/glutinous rice:
Directions
- Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a frying pan until hot. Add shallots and fry until lightly browned, then push to one side of the pan.
- Add mushrooms, ¼ tsp of sugar, and ¼ tsp of soy sauce, and fry until fragrant.
- Stir in glutinous rice, rice sauce ingredients, and six tbsp of the pandan/rice water (from the reserved 185 ml in Step 1 of Day 2 — Preparation steps).
- Add in black-eyed peas and the spring onion.
- Fry the above ingredients for 5 minutes to infuse and enrich the flavors.
Method to steam glutinous/sticky rice:
Directions
- Prepare a steamer* and an inner container. Boil enough water and add to the steamer. Bring to a gentle boil.
- Fill the inner container with half the fried rice and bean mixture.
- Place the remaining 2½ pandan leaves on top.
- Cover the pandan leaves with the remaining fried rice mixture.
- Pour the remaining 185 ml of pandan/rice water over the rice and bean mixture.
- Place the container into the steamer and steam the contents for 30 minutes until the rice is cooked.
Vegetarian glutinous rice option:
Place a single serving of steamed glutinous rice into a bowl. Pack it tight with a spoon. Smooth and shape it with a butter knife. Turn the bowl onto a serving plate and remove the rice onto the plate.
Chicken glutinous rice option:
First, place fried chicken into a bowl, then top with the steamed glutinous rice mixture. Pack it down with a spoon and smooth it out with a knife. Turn out onto a serving plate.
* Note two steamer types:
1. A stainless steel steamer with a saucepan, inserts, and lid.
2. A bamboo steamer with a saucepan, inserts, and lid.
