Coconut Mango Rice

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  • Prep Time

    1 hr

  • Cook Time

    mins

  • Total Time

    1 hr 30 mins

  • Servings

    2 servings

  • Calories

    699 kcal

  • Course

    Dessert

  • Cuisine

    Asian

Coconut Mango Rice

Thai Coconut Mango Sticky Rice is made with sweet, fresh yellow mango, glutinous sticky rice, and an amazing coconut sauce that will transport you right to the tropics! It's a little taste of Thailand that I brought home with me.

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Ingredients

Servings
  • 1 cup glutinous rice
  • 1 cup coconut milk
  • 3 tablespoons sugar divided
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon cornstarch
  • 1 ripe yellow mango peeled and sliced
  • toasted sesame seeds
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Instructions

Sticky Rice

  1. Put rice in a large glass bowl and cover with enough room temperature water to come up about 1 inch over the top of the rice. Soak rice for 1-5 hours. Drain off the water, and rinse the soaked rice with running water to remove excess starch.
  2. Fill a medium-sized pot about ⅔ full with water. The pot should be smaller than your splatter guard or fine mesh strainer that has been inverted (see post notes above) that you plan to use to cook the rice. Heat the water to boiling.
  3. Place a splatter guard or mesh strainer over the boiling water and adjust the heat down a bit to maintain a gentle boil. Carefully dump the drained and rinsed rice right onto the splatter guard or inverted strainer, right in the center. Keep the mound of rice no higher than 2 to 3 inches high. This will help with even cooking.
  4. Cover the rice mound with a bowl or pot that domes a bit higher than the height of the rice mound. The cover does not have to match the size of the pot opening; as long as it doesn’t touch the rice and can sit on the splatter guard or mesh strainer, it will work.
  5. The amount of time required to steam the sticky rice will depend on the amount of rice you are steaming, but one cup of raw rice will take about 25 to 30 minutes using this approach. Halfway through the steaming process, remove the domed cover and quickly flip the rice or give it a fluff to ensure even cooking and prevent the rice on the bottom of the pile from getting soggy.

Sweet Coconut Sauce & Topping

  1. While the rice is steaming, open the can of coconut milk and spoon out the thick cream on top into a small bowl and set aside. If you do not shake your can and let it chill in the refrigerator before using, this step will be very easy as the milk and cream will naturally separate. Pour the thinner, lighter coconut milk that remains into a small pan.
  2. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar and ½ teaspoon of salt to the coconut milk in the small pan, and warm over medium heat, stirring gently and continuously until the sugar is completely dissolved, about 5 minutes. Be careful not to let the sauce come to a boil.
  3. Once the rice is cooked through with no hard, raw bits in the middle of the grains, remove the splatter guard or strainer from over the water and scrape the rice off the screen into a mixing bowl. It may be lumpy, which is fine. Slowly pour the warm coconut milk mixture over the cooked rice, stirring frequently to coat the rice in the coconut milk mixture, but watching so that you are not oversaturating the rice to the point that there are puddles of coconut milk. Continue stirring, and stop adding the sweetened coconut milk once it looks like the rice is saturated. You may not use all of the coconut milk mixture. Set the rice aside for 20 minutes (or even up to 2 hours) to finish absorbing the coconut milk.
  4. While the rice is soaking, make the coconut cream topping. In the same saucepan that you used for the coconut milk, give it a quick rinse and then stir together the reserved coconut cream and the remaining 1 tablespoon of sugar, and ¼ teaspoon salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together a few teaspoons of water and the cornstarch to create a thin slurry.
  5. Whisk this cornstarch slurry into the coconut cream mixture and cook over low heat for about 3 minutes, or just until the mixture begins to thicken. Set aside.
  6. Peel the mango and slice it into thin slices. Arrange the slices in a decorative manner on individual serving plates and serve with a portion of coconut sticky rice with the coconut cream sauce drizzled over the top and toasted sesame seeds sprinkled on top for garnish. You can also garnish the plate with banana leaves or tropical, if you have access to them, just to make it look even more authentic.

Notes

  • Steaming method adapted from She Shimmers. Thai Coconut Mango Sticky Rice recipe adapted from She Simmers and The Cooking of Joy.
  • Storage: Store the sticky rice and the mango sauce separately. Store each in an airtight container or covered in plastic wrap, in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat briefly in the microwave or gradually bring to room temperature before serving. If the sauce starts to thicken, add some coconut milk or water to the mix.

Nutrition Information

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Calories 699kcal (35%) Carbohydrates 113g (38%) Protein 9g (18%) Fat 25g (38%) Saturated Fat 22g (110%) Polyunsaturated Fat 1g Monounsaturated Fat 1g Sodium 894mg (37%) Potassium 494mg (14%) Fiber 4g (16%) Sugar 32g (64%) Vitamin A 1120IU (22%) Vitamin C 39mg (43%) Calcium 43mg (4%) Iron 5mg (28%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 2servings

Amount Per Serving

Calories 699 kcal

% Daily Value*

Calories 699kcal 35%
Carbohydrates 113g 38%
Protein 9g 18%
Fat 25g 38%
Saturated Fat 22g 110%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g 6%
Monounsaturated Fat 1g 5%
Sodium 894mg 37%
Potassium 494mg 11%
Fiber 4g 16%
Sugar 32g 64%
Vitamin A 1120IU 22%
Vitamin C 39mg 43%
Calcium 43mg 4%
Iron 5mg 28%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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