Khao Neow Ma-Muang (Sweet Glutinous Rice With Mango)

Khoaw Neow Ma-Muang (Sweet Glutinous Rice With Mango)

It's one of the popular Thai desert. It's not only foreigner love to eat Khoaw Neow Ma-Muang, Thais also love to eat. You can easily find it on the street in Thailand in Mango season (March to June).  My mom always bring hundred of mangoes from her mango' trees. And sometime receive from neighbors. There are many breed of mangoes therefore we love to exchange and taste them. That is reason why I never buy mangoes in Thailand. Sad to say I have to pay for mangoes in Singapore and it's so expensive!!.
Here is how to make Sweet Glutinous Rice (Khoaw Neow Moon) for serving with mango in small portion.

Ingredients (2 serves)


- 1 cup    glutinous rice
- 250 ml  coconut milk
- 2 tbsp   sugar
- 1 tsp     sugar
- 3          pandan leaf
- 1/4 tsp plain flour or corn flour
- salt to taste

optional

- Alum water

Step 1: Cleaning

This is a traditional method for cleaning glutinous rice to white color and more shin by using Alum water.

- Stir a crystal of Alum into 400 ml of water 2 min or adding 1 tsp of alum powder.
- Soak the glutinous rice into alum water for 5 min and rinse with water 2 times.

I do not have a crystal of Alum then I will skip this step. The rice will not be white and shiny like those selling in the restaurants.

Reference: photo of alum water from  http://www.kruaklaibaan.com




Step 2: Soaking

- Soak the glutinous rice over night or at least 3 hours in water until soft.
- Rinse and drain.

Step 3: Steaming

- Fill water into the steamer pot to about 1/4 of it.
- Place tea tower into the Earthen Steamer (bamboo basket) then add drained glutinous rice.
- Put 3 pandan leaves on top of the glutinous rice and cover with lid. (can use any pot cover as lid)
(I forget to put pandan leaves in picture4)
- Steam the glutinous rice over medium high heat for 40 min or until the rice is cook.

*If you don't have the earthen steamer set you may also use normal steamer but please remember that you still need to place the tea tower before the drained glutinous rice and also should not put too much water because it will cause the rice to be over soft. Check the rice after 25 min.
* You may use rice cooker for convenience but the rice will turn out over soft too.

I will write about how to use rice cooker and microwave to cook glutinous rice another time.

*In Singapore, you can find the Earthen steamer set at Thai Supermarket in Golden mile. If I'm not wrong it is not more than S$20 per set.

Step 4: Mixing

- Heat 250 ml of coconut milk over low heat and stir continuously until oil seeps out on the surface. (5-10 min)
- Add sugar and let it dissolve well in the coconut milk.
- After the glutinous rice is cook, quickly bring it into  a mixing bowl and pour 150 ml of the prepared coconut milk into the glutinous rice, add 1 tsp of sugar and some salt to taste. Stir continuously to let the rice, coconut and sugar mix well.
- Stir evenly until the rice absorb all the prepared coconut milk. You will see the glutinous rice becoming shiny.
- Set it aside.

Step 5: Coconut Sauce

 - Heat the remaining of 100 ml prepared coconut milk over low heat.
- Add 1/4 tsp of plain flour or corn flour to thicken it.
- Add salt to taste.









Step 6: Serve

- Peel the mango and place it onto serving dish.
- Place the sweet glutinous rice and pour the coconut sauce over the rice.












Step7: Gup Gup Gup

- Open you mouth.
- Place the rice and mango into you mouth.. ^_>