The Farmer Family Cookbook

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Ingredients

• Lukewarm water
• Rice

Steps

1. In lukewarm water, soak sticky rice for 2-1/2 - 3 hours (or overnight in room temperature water).
2. Fill half of the steamer pot with water. Drain the rice and put it in the bamboo basket. Cover the rice with any lid (if you don't have a lid, aluminum foil will work). Set the bamboo basket over the steamer pot.
3. Bring to boil and let it steam for 10 minutes.
4. Stir, so the rice at the bottom moves to the top.
5. Steam for 10 more minutes and stir again.
6. Steam for 10 more minutes. The color of the rice will turn clear when it's done. Taste to see if it's soft enough. If it's still not soft enough, steam just 5 minutes more and check again, until it's done.

Tips: You can re-steam the rice if it's too hard later on, because Utah weather is very dry compared to Thailand. To clean the bamboo basket, just let the rice that sticks to the basket dry and it will come off when wiped with your hand.