Ingredients:-375g sweet rice (aka glutinous rice)
-3 tbs lye water or 4 tbs baking soda
-water
-bamboo leaves
What to Do:
Wash rice and mix with lye water or baking soda. Add enough water to cover surface of rice by 2 inches. Soak rice overnight. Next morning wash rice may times until and drain. Wrap using bamboo leaves to form a triangular cone shape. Tie with kitchen twine and boil for at least 1 ½ hours. These dumplings are small use 1 tsp of rice per dumpling. Serve as a snack with sugar.
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I've hear that lye water gives a "springy" texture to homemade noodles. Could you tell me what soaking the sweet rice in lye water before cooking does? Thanks......
lance,
the lye water makes the rice transparent.
Where I can find this Lye water? I love this dumpling.
thanks
asian grocery stores