Green bean sticky rice is a nutritious dish and is very popular as breakfast. Accordingly, housewives only need to apply a few secrets to cook sticky rice with an electric rice cooker to have a batch of sticky rice that is chewy and fragrant, and rice grains that are shiny in a short time.
Soak rice and beans in warm water
Housewives should use boiling water at about 40 to 50 degrees C to soak rice and beans. This temperature will help rice and beans bloom faster. Just soak for about 1 to 2 hours and the ingredients will be soft enough to cook. In addition, you should choose to buy green beans that have been peeled to skip the time-consuming peeling stage.
Boil with hot water
Instead of cooking with cold water, add hot water to the rice cooker to cook. Hot water will help the rice grains shrink and retain their sweetness and limit the situation of sticky rice grains being mushy or crushed. The amount of water also needs to be noted to only pour over the rice surface because if you add as much water as cooking regular rice, sticky rice can easily become thick porridge.
Add cooking oil or chicken fat
To make the sticky rice grains shiny, spoiled and not stick together, add a spoonful of cooking oil or chicken fat to the rice before pressing the cooking button. The fat will wrap the rice grains, helping the sticky rice when cooked to have a shiny appearance and a fatty, rich flavor.
Cook twice
Electric rice cookers usually switch to warming mode quite early when the water runs out. At this time, the sticky rice grains may not be completely cooked. A small tip is that when the pot has just switched to warming mode, open the lid, use chopsticks to gently shake it to soften and let the steam drain. Then, close the lid and turn on the cooking mode again. This process will help the sticky rice grains cook smoothly from the inside but still dry, not getting wet.
