Fried Sticky Rice

There is one dish that I always wanted to try making, but never got around to it is the fried sticky rice! I have put it off for so long because I’ve heard alot of ‘tricks’ are needed to make it successful! And some people say that if you do it the preper way (ie. fry the sticky rice from raw to cooked, not cheating it by steaming it soft first!) it takes ageessss and lots of arm muscles! Ummmmm....

Finally I took up the challenge!

Ingredients:

2 cups sticky rice

2 Chinese sausage, sliced

2 dried scallop

12 dried shrimp

12 dried mushroom

2 eggs, whisked

4 tsp water

chopped shallots

2 cups water

3 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp dark soy sauce

1 tsp sugar

1) Soak the sticky rice overnight. In a separate bowl soak the mushroom and dried scallop till soft. Then diced them up.

2) Add a little oil to a non-stick pan and pour in the eggs to make omelette. Cool, then roll it up and slice into threads.

3) Fry the Chinese sausage, shredded dried scallop, and the diced mushroom together. Reserve.

4) Drain the sticky rice. Add a little oil in pan, and fry the sticky rice until it’s coated with oil. Slowly add in the water a little at a time. Continue to stir until sticky rice softens. Add in soy sauce, dark soy sauce and sugar and stir to coat the rice evenly. Add in the ingredients from step 3 and lastly the egg threads.

Well... it didn’t turn out to be as hard as I imagined, and it didn’t take long for the rice to soften either! I think it only took me 10 minutes! Don’t know why, perhaps because I soaked the rice overnight?!?!? I also found that the rice is lacking in flavour, maybe a little bit more soy sauce will do the trick!

Now I still have a big bag of sticky rice left in the cupboard... so I might give this another go, and whatelse can I make using sticky rice?!!?! Any suggestion??