No. Sticky rice flour and glutinous rice flour are completely different, and the ingredients of these two are also different kinds of rice.
Glutinous rice flour is a flour made from glutinous rice ground in water, which is relatively sticky, and is called jiangmian or sticky rice flour in the north, and is suitable for making soup dumplings, strips of rice cakes, donkey rolls, sugar rice cakes, and pan-fried Chinese dim sum. The viscosity is much higher than that of sticky rice flour. Generally, the glutinous rice flour sold in the market is raw glutinous rice flour. Sticky rice flour is made from ordinary stalked rice, which is called Jai Lai flour in Taiwan. It is not as sticky as glutinous rice flour, and is suitable for making steamed Chinese confectionery, such as muffins, cakes, and centering cakes. It is the main ingredient in many pastries such as Cantonese turnip cake and taro cake.
There is a big difference between the two, can not be equated, the two are not the same, and their qualities are also different, glutinous rice flour viscosity is relatively high, and sticky rice flour is relatively loose. Mainly as a high point of the necessary materials, so in the purchase, or need to learn to distinguish between the two.
How to distinguish between sticky rice flour:
Sticky rice flour and glutinous rice flour are very similar from the appearance, both of which is the use of sticky rice milled, one is to use sticky rice milled, buy back the sticky rice flour and glutinous rice flour can not be distinguished, you can twist a little bit of the hand, with the forefinger and thumb to gently rub the texture of the sticky rice flour is finer, the friction process will not have a granularity, the friction process will not have a granularity, the friction process will not have a granularity, the friction process will not be able to distinguish between the two. The texture of sticky rice flour is fine, and there is no graininess in the process of rubbing, while the texture of glutinous rice flour is relatively coarse.
Sticky rice flour is made from glutinous rice soaked overnight, water milled into slurry water, hung in a cloth bag for a night, and when the water drips dry, the wet sticky rice flour dough broken and dried is the finished sticky rice flour, of course, you can buy ready-made in the supermarket. It can be made into soup dumplings (i.e., Lantern Festival) and other foods and family snacks, known for its unique flavor.