Various Methods for Making Sticky Rice – Most Loved are Sweet Rice Cake and Sticky Rice, Soft and Delicious, Extremely Tasty

Steamed sticky rice (shaomai) is also known as shaomai, shaped like pomegranate, with a lot of filling and thin skin, soft and fragrant, is a favorite snack for many people. Steamed sticky rice is a very popular specialty snack, said to originate from buns.

Its main difference from buns, besides using unleavened dough for the skin, also lies in the fact that it is not sealed at the top, resembling a pomegranate. It has a long history in China, with different fillings in various regions, each with its own characteristics. Today, let's make a nutritious and delicious breakfast steamed sticky rice. It's easy to learn, and you'll master it in one look.

Ingredients needed to make steamed sticky rice: 100g pork, 200g sticky rice, 4 shiitake mushrooms, 1 carrot, 50g corn kernels, 200g flour.

Step 1: First, add 200g of flour to 50g of boiling water, then add 50g of cold water and form a half-warm dough.

Step 2: Then soak 200g of sticky rice for four hours, cook into sticky rice, cool and set aside. Chop the pork into meat filling. Wash and dice shiitake mushrooms, carrots, and prepare corn kernels.

Step 3: Add vegetable oil to the pot, I personally think vegetable oil is more fragrant and more suitable for seasoning the filling. Heat the oil and sauté shallots and ginger, then add the prepared meat and vegetables to stir-fry.

Step 4: Add the prepared sticky rice with salt,,,,,, to season.

Step 5: Transfer the cooked filling out and set aside, then divide the dough into portions about the same size as those used for wrapping dumplings.

Step 6: Flatten it into a slightly thinner circle and use a spoon to press out flower edges. Hold the steamed sticky rice skin with one hand and the meat filling with the other. Then tighten it into a pomegranate shape.

Step 7: Then steam in a pot for 15 minutes, and after the lid is closed for 5 minutes before opening to eat.

This soft, fragrant and delicious steamed sticky rice is ready, one by one round and round steamed sticky rice, with glistening sticky rice wrapped into a small bag-like shape, which looks very beautiful. Steamed sticky rice is easy to make, and not difficult, if you find the dough making troublesome, you can buy ready-made dumpling skins and spread them thin and wrap them with filling.

When it comes to sticky rice, we will think of soft and delicious sticky rice cake, choose sticky rice cake is a favorite snack for children in the family. Let's see how it is made.

Ingredients needed: one bowl of glutinous rice flour, one spoon of white sugar, corn oil, dried fruits, pure milk.

Step 1: First, pour glutinous rice flour into a bowl, add white sugar, corn oil, and pure milk. Stir evenly with a chopstick, the glutinous rice flour will turn into a viscous state, the best state is when the sticky rice flour hangs on the chopsticks, do not drop.

Step 2: Then prepare a flat bottom pan, brush a layer of corn oil in it, so as not to make the rice paste stick, and it will be more convenient to demold.

Step 3: Then pour the stirred rice paste into the flat bottom pan, shake it a few times with the hand, so that the gas in the rice paste can be discharged, the steamed rice cake will be more delicate.

Step 4: Add the dried fruits you like, stir with a chopstick, let the dried fruits and rice paste fully fuse, then put it into the steaming pot and cook over high heat, about 15 minutes, take it out when it's done, let it cool and cover it with plastic wrap, refrigerate for half an hour.

Step 5: Then fire up the pot and bring it to a boil, add the remaining glutinous rice flour, turn it to a small flame and slowly stir-fry until the glutinous rice flour turns slightly yellowish, then scoop it out. This makes the steamed rice cake evenly coated with fragrant, slightly yellowish glutinous rice flour, which is so fragrant to eat.