Chinese Sticky Rice with Preserved Meats
Chinese sticky rice is the ultimate Asian comfort food. This one is perfumed with the sweet fragrance of five-spice marinated sausage and bacon, and garlic.
Equipment
- rice cooker
Ingredients
- 1 Chinese sausage link
- 1 slab Chinese bacon
- 2 cups glutinous rice
- 1 1/4 cup water
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp xiaoxing wine
- 5 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 handful green onion chopped
- 1 pc Chinese preserved duck leg optional
Instructions
- Wash glutinous rice and then soak for 4 hours.
- Saute Chinese sausage and bacon on medium low heat to render fat, about 5 minutes. Set aside. Then saute garlic in the fat left in the pan. Saute for 5 minutes on medium heat until brown. Then set aside.
- Add in Chinese sausage, bacon, and duck leg to the bottom of a rice cooker. Then add in soy sauce and xiaoxing wine.
- Drain the glutinous rice and place into the rice cooker. Add in 1 1/4 cups of water into the rice. Follow instructions on the rice cooker and turn on cook setting, approximately 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat a pan on medium. Add oil and green onion and saute on low heat for 5 minutes.
- After the rice cooker indicates that it is finished cooking, allow the rice to sit in its own steam for at least 10 minutes. Do not lift the lid.
- Top rice with green onion oil. Mix well and serve. Enjoy!