Mamuang Kao Nieo (Thai Mango with Sticky Rice)

A sweet taste of Southeast Asia, combining sweet rice, coconut milk, and mangoes. Serve with hot spiced tea. Best if made with very ripe mangoes.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups glutinous rice
• 6 tbsp of thick coconut cream
• 1 cup thick coconut milk
• 5 tbsp of sugar
• ½ tsp of salt
• 3 large sweet mangoes , sliced into large strips

Directions:

To make the sticky rice:

Soak rice overnight in cold water, or for 15 minutes in boiling water if short of time.

Drain the rice, rinse and spread out on a wet cloth inside a steamer.

Cook over boiling water for 40 minutes, until rice is tender.

To make the mango recipe and glutinous rice together:

Season the coconut cream with some salt and refrigerate it

Dissolve sugar and salt in coconut milk

Mix and stir the coconut milk with the warm sticky rice and let it stands for 30 minutes

To serve: place some mango strips over a large scoop of sticky rice mixture and add some coconut cream over the top.