Ruo Mi Fan 糯米饭

I've been wanting to cook Ruo Mi Fan, or 'Loh Mai Fan' in Cantonese, for daughter so that she begins to get used to eating Chinese dishes with different types of seasoning. When I was in Singapore, I used to order this dish and Chinese steamed buns from the coffee shop's Dim-Sum stall.

I found this recipe on a blog http://felicity-wishes.blogspot.com/2005/10/yummy-glutinous-rice.html and eliminated adding meat to make the dish suitable for vegetarians.

All praise be to Allah SWT daughter seems to enjoy having this for lunch. I have to stop myself after eating two bowls of this yummy dish. Mmmmm... simple joy of good and tasty food...

Ingredients:

Glutinous Rice (soaked overnight)

Dried Shrimps (soaked and chopped finely)

Dried Shitake Mushrooms (soaked and chopped coarsely)

Garlic (sliced thinly)

Dark and Light Soy Sauce

Cooking / Sesame Oil

Sugar

Salt

Method:

1. Fry garlic, shrimp and mushroom until fragrant in cooking oil.

2. Add soy sauce, sugar and rice. Mix well.

3. Transfer into shallow glass plate.

4. Add enough mushroom liquid until rice is just covered and steam over boiling water in wok for 30 minutes.

5. Garnish with spring onions, toasted peanuts and crisp fried shallots.

Note: Bite-size boneless chicken meat can be cooked together with shrimps and mushrooms before rice is being added.