Mango Sticky Rice

Mango Sticky Rice

Delicious ripe mangoes served with coconut infused sweet and salty rice. This is a very different dessert compared to the usual ones that we try. Its a dessert made with rice and is a famous Thai delicacy.

Ingredients

For the Rice

• Basmati Rice: 1 cup ( soaked for 6-7 hours)
• Coconut milk: 1.5 cups
• water : 2 - 2.5 cups
• Sugar : 1/3 rd cup
• Salt : 1/2 tsp
• Vanilla essence: 1/2 tsp

For the coconut sauce

• Coconut cream (available in can) : 3/4 cup
• Corn flour: 1 tsp
• Salt : 1/4 tsp
• Sugar : 2 tbsp

For the topping

• Moong daal : 2 tbsp
• Ripe Mangoes : 1 nos

Method

1. To prepare the rice wash the rice well and soak for few hours , preferably overnight.
2. Take a thick bottom pan and add the soaked rice and the water and cook on medium flame until the rice is slightly overcooked.
3. While the rice is cooking take a bowl and mix the coconut milk, sugar, salt and vanilla essence and heat it on a low flame. Keep stirring until the sugar is dissolved and the milk is warm. Do not boil.
4. Once the rice is done add this milk mix and immediately close the lid and allow to rest.
5. While the rice is resting we'll prepare the sauce. Take the coconut cream in a saucepan. From this cream take a few tablespoons and mix the cornflour to it in order to make it lump free. Now add this cornflour mix to the remaining coconut cream and mix well. Add the sugar and salt to this and heat on a medium flame until the sauce thickens and starts to coat the back of the spoon. 
6. By now the rice should have absorbed all the coconut milk and must be slightly sticky. Now the rice is ready.
7. To top the dessert we should cook the moong daal. wash the daal and cook it for 10 - 15 minutes in little water until the daal goes soft. Now heat a tawa and slightly brush it with oil and add the cooked daal and toss it until it goes crisp. Initially the daal would be soft while tossing so be gentle in mixing. Keep tossing until the daal gets crisp and slightly changes colour. Now the topping is ready. This is called as the mung beans in Thailand desserts.
8. Slice the mangoes in the shape preferred. Now all the things are ready for the dessert and let's assemble it
9. Fill the rice in a bowl of your choice and invert it so that the rice serving forms a nice shape. Pour few tablespoons of sauce over it and top it with the mung beans we prepared. assemble the sliced mangoes by the side of the rice and serve....eat the rice mixed with the sauce and the mangoes..
10. Enjoy the sticky rice with the sweet salty sauce and the soft mangoes with the crunchiness of the mung beans.

Happy cooking!!

Shabana