Kow Neuw Moon-sticky rice with coconut milk

Sticky rice is an important part in Thai dish. This is known as the core ingredient of Thai dessert and also northeastern Thai food. This dish is easy to make. The ingredients are as follows one cup sticky rice, two tablespoons sugar, one cup coconut milk and two pinches salt. Traditionally this dish was made by using a steamer. The process can be explained as at first the sticky rice should be soaked in enough water so that the rice can be covered for an hour or even sometimes overnight. Water should be there in the bottom of the steamer and the steam section should be covered with cheese or muslin cloth. The rice should be poured in the muslin cloth which is followed by covering the lid. Then the steamer is put on the stove on medium to high heat. It takes twenty minutes to cook the rice in a steamer.

Now a day all of us are habituated to use microwave oven. So, this is better to write down the process of making sticky rice in this gadget. First the rice should be soaked in warm water for about ten minutes. Soaking is important as it makes the rice soft and it also helps a lot in cooking. If the quantity of rice is one cup, the water should be little more than a cup. The cooking bowl should be made of glass. The bowl with rice and water should be covered with lid and cooked for three minutes in full power. The rice should be stirred from up to the bottom. You will fine some part of rice is cooked and some are not. Repeat the process for another three minutes. The rice should look translucent if it really cooked, or else the process of cooking three minutes should be repeated.

In the next phase the coconut milk should be heated in a pot on simmer and constantly stirred till the coconut milk thickens. Sugar and salt should be added till the milk becomes curdled. After this it should be removed from it. ¾ of the hot coconut milk should be poured over the hot sticky rice and it should be like this till five minutes. Rice will absorb the coconut milk, after which it becomes mushy. The rest of the coconut milk can be used for garnishing.