lo mai fan (糯米飯 or fried sticky rice)
When ya can’t make it to dim sum, bring dim sum to you!
#tbt to the days when we could go to dim sum in a bustling hall and salivate at all the goodies rolled around in carts until they arrived at our table. LUCKILY making your own sticky fried rice isn’t as hard as it may seem! You could dump everything into a rice/pressure cooker OR whip it up on the stove top for a deeper flavor.
Here, we have a lo mai fan (fried sticky rice) recipe prepared on the stove top to get more of that charred flavor.
Ingredients
1.5 cups glutinous rice
1/4 cup dried shrimp
3 tbsp avocado oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
3 scallions, finely chopped (white & green parts separated)
3 Chinese sausages, chopped
4-5 shiitake mushrooms, diced
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tsp ground white pepper
1 tbsp Shaoxing wine
2 tsp sesame oil
Optional: 1 tbsp Lao Gan Ma Chili Crisp
Directions
In a medium bowl, soak glutinous rice in 3 cups of water for at least 8 hours (best done overnight). Drain, rinse, and drain rice again. Set aside.
In a small bowl, rinse and drain dried shrimp twice. Soak dried shrimp in warm water for 10 minutes. Prepare and chop other ingredients while shrimp soaks. Drain shrimp and collect the shrimp water in another bowl.
Heat and liberally oil a wok or deep skillet with avocado oil over medium-high heat. Add garlic and white parts of scallions. Stir and cook until garlic slightly browns.
Stir in Chinese sausages, shrimp, and shiitake mushrooms. Saute very shortly for sausages to lightly brown but be careful to not let them burn. Add in soy sauce, oyster sauce, white pepper, and Shaoxing wine. Carefully stir-fry, making sure that nothing sticks to the bottom of the skillet.
Carefully mix in glutinous rice and continuously stir-fry to coat each grain in sauce. If using chili crisp, you may add it here. Add in shrimp water 1 tbsp at a time when rice begins to stick to the bottom of the skillet. You may not use all the water so do not dump all of it in at once. However, if you prefer your rice to be extra sticky and soft, you may go ahead and add all the water and let it cook off. Rice is done once soft and sticky.
Add in sesame oil and green parts of scallions. Thoroughly mix everything together and remove from heat. Serve hot or keep warm in a rice cooker until serving.
