Sticky rice with pork, sausage and mushrooms
Sticky rice benefits from soaking in water for a couple of hours. Use that time to cook your red braised pork belly. By the time the rice grains are plump from the water they have absorbed, the pork will be done, and you're ready to make this dish.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups sticky rice
- 6 dried black mushrooms (shiitake)
- 2 tablespoons Sichuan chili oil
- 1 onion peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 Chinese pork sausages thinly sliced
- 1 carrot peeled and cut into half-inch cubes
- ½ cup green peas
- salt
- pepper
- 3 cups red braised pork belly fully cooked
- ½ to ¾ cup mushroom soaking water
- ½ cup red braised pork belly sauce
Instructions
- Rinse the rice and place in a large bowl. Cover with three cups of water and leave to soak for two to four hours or until plump.
- Place the dried mushrooms in a bowl, pour in two to three cups of warm water and leave to soak.
- Drain the rice.
- Scoop out the mushrooms and thinly sliced; reserve the soaking liquid.
- Heat the chili oil in a wok or frying pan.
- Saute the onion in the oil.
- Add the sliced sausages and toss until heated through.
- Add the carrot cubes, peas and mushroom slices. Sprinkle in two pinches of salt and a pinch of pepper. Cook, tossing, for a few seconds.
- Stir in the drained sticky rice.
- Pour in half a cup of mushroom soaking water.
- Add the red braised pork belly and pour in the sauce.
- Stir once to distribute the ingredients.
- With the heat set to LOW, cover the pan and cook until the rice is done.
Notes
If, by the time the liquid has been absorbed, the rice grains are still underdone, drizzle in a couple of tablespoons of mushroom soaking water along the edges of the contents of the pan. Avoid stirring. Cover, cook for another five minutes and bite into a rice grain. Still underdone? Add a couple of tablespoons of mushroom soaking liquid again, cover and cook for another five minutes. The trick here is to add just enough liquid to cook the rice. If you add too much liquid at this stage, the rice grains may burst and turn mushy. So, add more liquid little by little.