Recipe: Perfect Mango Sticky Rice

Mango Sticky Rice. Bring pot to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat. Mango sticky rice (khao neow mamuang / ข้าวเหนียวมะม่วง) is an amazing and authentic Thai dessert. It is typical street food in Thailand, especially during summer, when mango is in season.

As another reviewer mentioned, though, the rice should be steamed in a bamboo basket to be truly authentic. Cooking the rice by boiling it or with a rice cooker will make it mushy and with a different consistency than intended for. This mango sticky rice recipe requires just a few ingredients. You can cook Mango Sticky Rice using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mango Sticky Rice

1. It's 1.5 cup of glutinous/sweet rice.
2. Prepare 1 cup of instant coconut milk (I am using Kara Brand).
3. Prepare 1/3 cup of sugar.
4. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
5. You need 1 tbsp of toasted sesame seed.
6. It's of Mangoes.

Use the ripest mangoes you can find, a good quality coconut milk (avoid "lite" options), and Thai sweet rice. Also called glutinous rice or sticky rice, it can be found at Asian food stores and well-stocked supermarkets. While rice cooks, put coconut milk, sugar and salt in a small saucepan over low heat. Cook, stirring, just until sugar is dissolved.

Mango Sticky Rice step by step

1. Wash the rice and soak overnight. The next day, drain the rice and steam for about 30-40 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine coconut milk, sugar, salt, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat.
3. Transfer cooked rice to a bowl and stir in coconut-milk mixture. Let rice stand, covered, 30 minutes, or until coconut-milk mixture is absorbed..
4. If you find the rice is still hard, steam the rice again for another 10 minutes.
5. Serve with mangoes and toasted sesame seed.

Put warm rice in a serving bowl. Pour coconut milk mixture over rice and stir well. Serve warm or at room temperature with mango slices. Mango on Sticky Rice is a traditional summer dessert because mangoes are in season during the summer months of April and May in Thailand. When I think of mango on sticky rice, I think of the days when school is out--the carefree summer.