Happy Thursday everyone!

Today I have quite a classic Chinese dish for you – Sticky Rice or Glutinous Rice (depending on where you are!).  It is a savoury dish, characterised by a sticky, stodgy white rice with lots of meat in it.  It is quite rich so is sometimes served as a dim sum, or wrapped up in some leaves. It isn’t the kind of thing you’d sit and eat a whole plate of, like Fried Rice, because the texture is quite heavy.

To start, you need Glutinous Rice. I don’t know how easy this is to find in a regular supermarket – hard probably, but if you go to a Chinese supermarket, then there’s loads of options and it is inexpensive:

Mother used half a bag, 1kg for this but this is a highly exaggerated quantity! For two you would need far less than that, more like a third of the quantity – we were feeding 6 adults though.

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