How to Make Delicious Chinese Sticky Rice | 糯米飯

Today, I am excited to share with you a wonderful recipe I recently picked up, delicious Chinese sticky rice (糯米飯).

This version is made with rice, potatoes, eggs, carrots, mushrooms, sausages, cooking oil, light soy sauce or dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, pepper, salt, sesame seeds.. It's a perfect recipe for children looking to try something different as it's not too spicy or salty.

It's the perfect fill-up food for those cold winter days or just to carb up before going to work.

History

In China, glutinous rice has been grown for at least 2,000 years.^[2] However, researchers believe that glutinous rice distribution appears to have been culturally influenced and closely associated with the early southward migration and distribution of the Tai ethnic groups, particularly the Lao along the Mekong River basin originating from Southern China.^[3]  

Along the Greater Mekong Sub-region, Lao people has been cultivating glutinous rice for approximately 4000 - 6000 years.^[3] Glutinous rice is the national dish of Laos.^[4] In Laos, a tiny landlocked nation with a population of 6 million, per-capita sticky rice consumption is the highest on earth at 171 kg or 377 pounds per year.^[5][6] It is deeply ingrained in the culture and religious tradition of the Lao. To the Lao people sticky rice glues their community and country together.^[7] Sticky rice is the way Lao people identify themselves, such that they will often refer to themselves as the “children of sticky rice”^[8] or if they did not eat sticky rice, they would not be Lao.^[9][10]

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