When the weather is sunny and hovering around 30 degrees
Celsius (or 84 degrees Fahrenheit), it makes me think of desserts like shaved ice
and sticky rice with mangoes. Although my relatives are from Cambodia, I can’t recall
eating mangoes with sticky rice and sweetened coconut milk. In Thailand, they call it khao neeo
mamuang.
Not long after watching some youtube videos of street food
in Thailand and Singapore, I had sudden cravings of tasting sticky rice with
mangoes. We luckily had some ripe mangoes from Toronto. Perfect.
Sticky rice was made with a bit of coconut milk powder and
water. Unfortunately there wasn’t enough water and some of the rice became
crunchy.
A couple of mangoes from the case were placed in a plastic
bag to ripen quicker for a few days. (You can also use this technique to ripen bananas quicker too.) This was the result. The soft mangoes were
deep orange and, once peeled, filled the kitchen with a sweet perfume of
mangoes.
The coconut-scented sticky rice was topped with the sliced
mangoes. Coconut milk was drizzled on top but it just didn’t taste right. There
was something missing. Simple syrup was needed to sweeten the sticky rice and
make it taste better.
This dessert dish would’ve been much better if the sticky
rice was made properly. Some of
the sticky rice earned a big womp womp. Not only did it stick to our teeth, but
they also weren’t pleasant to chew. I’m not sure that it’s worth the extra
effort to eat ripe mangoes. I’d be perfectly happy to eat cold ripened mangoes
alone -- especially in the heat.
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