Sticky rice needs to be soaked for 24 hours before it can be steamed.

Sticky rice has a hard texture and needs to be soaked before steaming to avoid affecting the texture. If you like to eat soft and sticky texture of glutinous rice, you can increase the soaking time as appropriate. Glutinous rice can be used alone for steamed rice, but also with black rice, round-grained rice, blood glutinous rice, buckwheat flour, jujube and other ingredients together steamed, the taste will be more rich. Steamed glutinous rice can be simmered for a while before eating, the taste will be better.

Before steaming glutinous rice, soak it in water for 24 hours, so that the inner part of the grain can absorb enough water, so that it cooks faster and tastes softer. Steam the soaked glutinous rice in a rice cooker for 30 minutes, and the grains will be soft and tender. Steaming glutinous rice in a pressure cooker takes less time, 15 to 20 minutes.

Edible value

Sticky rice has a wide range of edible value, and can be used to make a variety of snacks, such as rice cakes, eight treasures congee, etc. It can also be used to make wine, or to make mash. Glutinous rice flour is characterized by high viscosity, easy pasting, good temperature stability of starch glue, not easy to regrowth, high water absorption and expansion force, thus becoming a necessary raw material for many food processing.

For example, instead of egg white to make salad dressing, in the freeze-thaw cycle to maintain the moisture of frozen food. The paste powder formed by the heat of glutinous rice flour can be used directly as a food thickener for foods such as ice cream, gravy and oyster sauce condiments.