Recipe, please? I have two mangoes here that.just.wont.ripe, so they are still too hard to give to my baby. This look delicious and it would allow me to serve them without waiting 15 weeks!
Okay. Brace yourself.
I didn't make the mango sticky rice myself. I got it from a food cart on PSU campus called Pompuii, so I didn't have the recipe. But I went there for lunch again today, because I needed another sticky rice fix, and while I was there I asked for the recipe. I was only kidding around--I've been eating there for years and I have a good rapport with the vendor--but she took me seriously! I dictated it into my phone, then typed up the recording here:
"Rinse the rice really good, and soak it overnight in the refrigerator. Rinse it again right before you use it. And you have to use glutinous rice, the ordinary white rice won't work. Get glutinous rice, sometimes called sticky rice. Anyway, rinse it good, then soak it and rinse it again. Don't boil it, you steam it. Put it on a pie plate and put it in a bamboo steamer, put some water in the bottom and steam it for a half an hour, then turn the heat off and let it sit.
Then you make the sauce out of coconut milk, sugar, and salt. Americans always forget the salt! Mix it up, then heat it up slowly until the sugar is gone. Cook it until it thickens up but don't ever let it boil or it'll split. Use coconut cream if you like it really thick.
Last step, take the pan of rice out of the steamer and add the sauce, stir it up, then let it sit until it soaks into the rice and cools down to room temperature. Scoop it out, add a little bit of the sauce, and some sliced mango."
She didn't give me any measurements, so I had to go find a recipe that matched her instructions. I didn't find one that matched perfectly, but
this one comes close (source: ScientificallySweet). And she didn't mention it, but I can see that she garnishes it with black sesame seeds.