Mango Sticky Rice: a delicious and easy to prepare dessert for the Chinese New Year: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

In the Chinese calendar, the Chinese New Year corresponds to the beginning of the Spring Holidays. In 2021, we are entering the year of the Metal Ox. The Chinese New Year is a very important event: it is an opportunity for millions of people to reunite with their families and to share a gourmet moment around delicious traditional dishes.

On the menu, an Asian feast where you can enjoy noodles, soups and broths, beef or chicken skewers marinated in soy sauce, and even lucky recipes. For dessert, Adrien Ferrand, chef at La Brigade du Tigre restaurant, explains how to cook a tasty Mango Sticky Rice. Based on rice, coconut milk and mango, this traditional dessert is ideal for making your taste buds travel without leaving home. It's your turn !

The easy recipe for Mango Sticky Rice

The ingredients of the recipe:

For the rice

  • 1 kg of sticky rice
  • 500 g coconut milk
  • 250 g sugar
  • 20 g of salt
  • 2 pieces of pandan leaves

For garnish :

For the topping:

  • 500g of coconut milk
  • 500g of condensed milk
  • 12g of pectin
  • 30g sugar

For the decor:

  • rao ram leaf
  • roasted sesame seeds

The preparation steps:

  1. Soak the rice in hot water for three hours.
  2. Wash the rice.
  3. Cook the rice in the rice cooker with 1 liter of water and 1 pandanus leaf.
  4. Place in a salad bowl and mix with 3 cl of water.
  5. Boil the coconut milk, sugar, salt and pandanus leaf.
  6. Mix with the rice.
  7. Clear and let stand for an hour.
  8. Cut the mango.
  9. Boil the elements of the topping (coconut milk, condensed milk, pectin and sugar).

For the dressage:

  1. Heat rice before serving and add the coconut milk-condensed milk mixture.
  2. Place in the bottom of the bowl.
  3. Add the mango.
  4. Finish with the rao ram leaves and sesame seeds.

Did you know ? The Chinese New Year is celebrated, according to the luno-solar calendar of Chinese astrology, generally at the beginning of February. To find out what 2021, year of the Metal Ox, has in store for you, you can make an appointment for an astrology consultation in complete safety on Current Astro Consult'.

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