Pandan Sticky Rice (Xoi La Dua)

Pandan Sticky Rice (Xôi Lá Dứa) is very famous in Vietnam. With this dish, you can use like a breakfast or dessert meal for yourself and family. I bet they will love it.

Ingredients

- Glutinous rice: 2 Bowls
- Pandan leaves
- Sugar: 1 Tablespoon
- Salt: 1 Teaspoon
- Grated coconuts (cononut meat): 200gr
- Chopped roast peanut
- Roasted white sesame.

Process

- Wash the pandan leaves. Slice the pandan leaves to small pieces. Add the pandan leaves into a blender. Puree the pandan leaves with cold water. Next, filter the pureed pandan leaves. Remove the residue of leaves. Just keep the pandan juice. 

- Mix the pandan juice with 2 liters of cold water. Soak the glutinous rice to this mixture. Add 1 teaspoon of salt into the mixture. Wait for one night.

- Next day, bring the glutinous out and wait until the glutinous become dry. Steam the glutinous rice. Sometime, use the chopsticks to turn the glutinous rice up.  Next, add a little sugar, if you like.

 

- When the glutinous rice cooked, ladle the glutinous rice and put to the bowl. Next, organize the grated coconuts, chopped roast peanut and roasted white sesame on the top.

 

- Pandan Sticky Rice has both amazing colour and taste. The green colour will make it is more beautiful.