Sticky Coconut Rice

Ingredients list for Sticky Coconut Rice

• 1½ cups Rice (kolam) soaked for ½ an hour
• 2 cups Coconut milk
• 1 tablespoon Castor sugar (caster sugar)
• to taste Salt
• 2 Pandana leaves
• 2 tablespoons Powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon Cornflour/ corn starch
• ½ medium Ripe mango

Method

1. Boil 4 cups water in a non-stick pan, add rice and mix well. Cook till the rice is done.
2. Heat half the coconut milk, castor sugar and salt in another non-stick pan, add 1 pandana leaf and mix well. Cook for 2-3 minutes.
3. Transfer the coconut mixture into a bowl.
4. Transfer the cooked rice in another bowl, add coconut mixture and set aside for 20 minutes.
5. Heat powdered sugar, cornflour and salt in another non-stick pan, add remaining coconut milk and whisk well. Keep stirring till thickens.
6. Peel and cut mango into thin strips.
7. Pour the prepared sauce into a squeezy bottle.
8. Drizzle coconut sauce on a serving plate, place mango strips and remaining pandana leaf on one side of the plate.
9. Put the rice into another deep plate, put the plate upside down in center of the plate and remove it gently and serve immediately.