Loh Mai Kai (Steam Glutinous Rice Malaysian style)

This is one of the best way of cooking Glutinous Rice. It is very tasty just like the one that you could get it from the Kopitiam and accompany it with Chilli sauce.

Serve 6

Ingredients

500g glutinous rice 4 cups water 250g chicken thigh or maryland fillets, diced in 4cm piece 6 pcs chicken wingettes 6 pcs sliced Char Siu (BBQ Pork) 1 Chinese sausage (lap cheong), remove skin and thinly sliced 10g black Chinese mushrooms, soaked and cut into thin slices 1 big onion, diced Coriander leaves - garnishing (optional) Seasoning (A): 2 tsp light soy sauce 2 tsp sesame oil 2 tsp oyster sauce 2 tsp ginger juice 2 tsp sugar 1/2 tsp white pepper 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp Shao Hsing Hua Tiau or any good Chinese cooking wine 1 tsp dark soy sauce (Thick Caramel sauce by Cheong Chan) 2 tsp oil 1 tsp cornflour Seasoning (B): 4 tsp light soy sauce 2 tsp pepper 3 tsp sugar 1 tsp salt 4 Tbsp oil 2 tsp sesame oil 2 tsp dark soy sauce (Thick Caramel Sauce by Cheong Chan) 1/2 tsp Chinese five spice powder   Method Wash glutinous rice, then soak it for at least five hours, for better result advise to soak overnight. Remove the glutinous rice from the water and put it in a metal bowl or line a steamer and steam it for 35 minutes in high heat. Cut chicken meat into slices. Marinate chicken slices, wingettes with seasoning (A) for about two hours. Heat oil in a wok and saute onions till fragrant. Add mushroom slices and stir fry quickly then dish up. Add cooked glutinous rice back to the wok and seasoning (B) and water. Stir fry and mix well for five minutes. Grease six medium-size rice bowls. Add some fried shallots and mushroom slices, a few slices of Chinese sausages and seasoned chickens and Char Siu (BBQ pork) slice. Fill up with glutinous rice and press down with a spoon. Steam for 30-40 minutes. Turn over the rice bowl onto a plate and serve Loh Mai Kai with chilli sauce. You could garnish it with some coriander leaves. Note : For those busy people out there you can enjoy this dish with little organisation. Marinate the night before, then in the morning soak the Glutinous Rice and when back from the busy day, start steaming the rice. Meanwhile the rice steaming, divide the marinated meat into the rice bowl. Then stir fry the onions and mushroom. When the rice is done then do the rest and steam. Within an hour and 10 minutes you will have this delicious dish.