Mango Sticky Rice Khao Niew Mamuang 🥭🍚

Description

Silky coconut cream soaked sticky rice topped with perfectly ripe mango and a glossy salted coconut drizzle, finished with crispy mung beans for a premium, high search dessert that tastes like a Bangkok cafe.

Hook ✨

If you want the Thai dessert that people search for nonstop and remember forever, this is it, ultra tender sticky rice, real coconut depth, and mango sweetness that feels expensive.

Ingredients

• Sticky rice
• 🍚 300 g Thai glutinous rice (1½ cups / 10.6 oz)
• 💧 1.5 l water, for soaking (6 cups / 51 fl oz)
• Coconut soak
• 🥥 400 ml coconut milk, full fat (1⅔ cups / 13.5 fl oz)
• 🍬 80 g sugar (⅓ cup / 2.8 oz)
• 🧂 3 g fine sea salt (½ tsp / 0.1 oz)
• Salted coconut drizzle
• 🥥 200 ml coconut milk, full fat (¾ cup / 6.8 fl oz)
• 🧂 2 g fine sea salt (⅓ tsp / 0.07 oz)
• 🌽 6 g cornstarch (2 tsp / 0.2 oz)
• 💧 30 ml water (2 tbsp / 1 fl oz)
• Mango and finish
• 🥭 3 ripe mangoes, sliced (3)
• 🫘 30 g crispy mung beans, or toasted sesame (¼ cup / 1.1 oz)

Preparation

1. 1️⃣ Rinse and soak
2. Rinse sticky rice until water runs mostly clear, cover with water, and soak 4 hours so it steams tender, not chalky. 💧
3. 2️⃣ Steam the rice
4. Drain rice well, steam in a lined steamer basket 25 min until fully translucent and chewy tender. 🍚
5. 3️⃣ Warm the coconut soak
6. In a saucepan on low heat, warm coconut milk with sugar and salt 2 min until dissolved, do not boil hard. 🥥
7. 4️⃣ Soak the rice
8. Transfer hot rice to a bowl, pour in 300 ml (1¼ cups / 10 fl oz) of the warm coconut soak, fold gently, cover, and rest 20 min to absorb. ✨
9. 5️⃣ Make the drizzle slurry
10. Whisk cornstarch with water until smooth and lump free. 🌽
11. 6️⃣ Thicken the drizzle
12. Warm coconut milk with salt on low heat, whisk in the slurry, simmer 60–90 sec until lightly thick and glossy, then cool 5 min. 🥣
13. 7️⃣ Prep the mango
14. Slice mango cheeks and cut into clean fan slices for a premium plate. 🥭
15. 8️⃣ Plate
16. Scoop sticky rice onto plates, add mango slices, spoon salted coconut drizzle over the rice, and finish with crispy mung beans. 🫘

Total Time

⏱️ Prep: 15 min
🔥 Cook/Bake: 30 min
🛋️ Rest: 260 min
⏰ Total: 305 min

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