Do you want to soak the glutinous rice
Do you want to soak the glutinous rice generally need an hour or two, steamed glutinous rice to grasp the amount of glutinous rice, the amount of slightly more than soak for two to four hours for the best, like to eat soft texture, you can soak the glutinous rice in advance of the night, and the longer the more glutinous.
In addition, you want to make the glutinous rice easier to become soft, but also add a little oil, and then steamed for more than half an hour, so that the sticky rice can ensure that cooked, the color looks fresh, and also better guarantee the nutrition.
Sticky rice how to steam and soft and sticky
1, the first to wash the sticky rice, soak in water overnight so that the sticky rice to eat enough water, so that the sticky rice has become fluffy, at this time, the sticky rice with the thumb and forefinger can be crushed;
2, with a dry steam rice special kind of steamer on the small down the big steamer barrel, so that you can make the sticky rice more uniformly by the implementation of the law, not so much as to the top of the middle of the steam more than one last moisture, and the side and half of the water! Too high, and the side and half-baked. Wooden steamer is good, stainless steel second, in the isolation layer of a layer of clean white gauze, put the rice in the steamer bucket and in the bucket on the lid;
3, boil a pot of water on the steamer bucket with medium heat steam, due to the longer time to pay attention to the water in the steamer, from time to time to the injection of this some water but do not add too much at a time, otherwise the water reopens when the time will be long;
4, steam about half an hour after the open lid check, the rice grain is transparent, take a few of them when the lid is opened, the rice grain is not too much. If the rice grains are cooked and with dry steamed glutinous rice that wonderful chewy, then you can start the pot, and at this time the good of the wooden bucket came out, it is breathable will not be too much water to stay in the barrel of the rice, if it is a steel steaming barrel will be steamed rice out, so as not to eat too much water in the impermeable barrel affects the taste.
How long to soak sticky rice
You can soak sticky rice for one to two hours before steaming it. Sticky rice is not the same as ordinary rice, ordinary rice just need to soak for an hour to cook, but if the sticky rice can not soak open, so that the steamed rice will not taste very good.
What is the nutrition and efficacy of glutinous rice
Glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin and nutrients and a variety of nutrients, for the warm and strong food, with a tonic in the qi, spleen, stomach, stopping the effect of false sweat. Apply to the spleen and stomach due to cold regurgitation, appetite reduction, diarrhea and gas deficiency caused by sweating, shortness of breath, pregnancy and abdominal distension and other symptoms, suitable for tuberculosis, neurasthenia, after the disease, post-partum people to eat. Glutinous rice contains starch for the branched chain starch, so it is difficult to digest and hydrolyze in the gastrointestinal, such as gastritis, duodenitis and other inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract should be eaten sparingly, the elderly, children, or patients suffering from gastrointestinal disorders should also be used with caution.