Quick and Easy Microwave Sticky Rice

Quick and Easy Microwave Sticky Rice

Sticky Rice is my very first thing to learn how to cook since I was 6 years old. We eat sticky rice every meal everyday. We washed and soaked sweet rice the night before we go to bed,  soaked overnight.We always get up between 4:30-5:30 am. to cook sticky rice. Start with getting the fire ready and drain the rice , pour in to the bamboo steamer or the solid wood steamer and some house uses stainless steel steamer. steam rice for 35-45 minutes and if you have the leftover rice from the day before we will add it on top the new rice 10 minutes before the rice is ready. Then you transfer cooked rice into a big wooden tray and use the wooden spoon turn the rice over let it cool a few minutes before store into bamboo basket or heat safe container. 

Then cook our meals or dishes, everything ready to serve by 7:00 am. for breakfast time. After breakfast, we packed some rice and foods for lunch and go to work on the rice field or other farm. 

I grew up with sticky rice from rice seeds, young plants, harvesting, cooking and eat. So I know my sticky rice very well. 

This is the way I cook my sticky rice here in the USA.

See VDO :

https://youtu.be/Gh67hVGQabg 

Directions

1. Add 3-4 cups of sweet rice in a medium microwave safe bowl, wash and scrub to clean out dust and sometime rice bugs and drain for 3 times.
2. Pour in Hot Water and you need the water cover 2-3 inches above rice.
3. Let it soak in hot water for 1 hour. ( can be 2-3 hours if you forget but 1 hour is enough time)
4. Drain the water out and leave just a little below rice, most of the rice still in the water and some rice float above water (see VDO)
5. Wrap with plastic wrap and Microwave on high for 15 minutes straight, no turning until done.
6. Carefully remove the bowl from microwave, It is very hot.! Remove the plastic wrap out immediately. (Otherwise, it will suck into the rice and make the rice so hard to turn over)
7. Turn over cooked rice with spoon and let the heat out.
8. Enjoy with your favorite foods such as fried/grilled pork, Satay, papaya salad, grilled/fried chicken, or make some dessert like mango sticky rice and etc.

 

 

Store leftover sticky rice in bamboo basket or container,

In Thailand, we store sticky rice outside at room temperature overnight and reheat with the new rice in the next morning.

I always store my leftover sticky rice in the fridge by divide it into one serving portion for easier reheat when I need it.

To reheat : Microwave on high for 35-45 seconds.