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Red gac sticky rice is a familiar and highly favored dish, often appearing on the tables of Vietnamese festivities, weddings, and Tet celebrations.
1. Discover the secret to making delicious red gac sticky rice with a rice cooker
Unlock the secrets of crafting delectable red gac sticky rice using a modern rice cooker
HOW TO MAKE RED GAC STICKY RICE USING A RICE COOKER
1. Ingredients for making red gac sticky rice:
- 500g of high-quality glutinous rice
- 1 ripe gac fruit
- 250g of sugar
- A pinch of salt
- 1 - 2 tablespoons of white wine
- 150g of mung beans
- Coconut milk
2. Step-by-step guide to making red gac sticky rice using a rice cooker:
In the process of making red gac sticky rice, the first important thing to note is to choose high-quality ingredients. No matter how skillful you are in cooking, if the ingredients are of poor quality, the dish will not be delicious and attractive. Therefore, you should choose sticky rice with a golden flower and evenly sized grains; choose ripe gac fruit, red, and not crushed, with evenly bloomed gac spikes.
Step 1: Preparation of ingredients
Discover the secret to making delicious red gac sticky rice with a rice cooker:
- Rinse the glutinous rice thoroughly and soak it in water with a pinch of salt for 6-8 hours.
- Mix the gac fruit with a pinch of salt and white wine to enhance its color
- Mix the gac fruit with a pinch of salt and white wine to enhance its color
- Cut the gac fruit in half, scoop out all the seeds and pulp into a bowl, add a few grains of salt and 2 tablespoons of white wine, then mix well.
- To achieve the vibrant red color, allow the mixture to sit for 3-4 hours (overnight if possible)
Irresistible allure of triple-layered gac sticky rice with mung beans
- Method 2: After soaking the mung beans, remove and steam until cooked, then sauté with sugar until well absorbed. After completing the steps of making sticky rice as above, spread a layer of sticky rice into a mold greased with a thin layer of cooking oil underneath for easy removal from the mold. Then, spoon a layer of sautéed mung beans with sugar evenly onto the surface of the sticky rice; finally, add another layer of sticky rice on top. During the process of layering the sticky rice into the mold, press each layer tightly by hand so that when removed from the mold, the triple-layered gac sticky rice with mung beans remains intact and has a cohesive appearance, which looks extremely enticing. With the upcoming Tet holiday in 2017, it is hoped that this method of making gac sticky rice using an electric rice cooker mentioned above will help women prepare delicious and nutritious gac sticky rice for the Tet feast.
