How to Prepare Tasty Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken and Mushroom)

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Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken and Mushroom). Super Easy Lor Mai Gai Recipe Lo Mai Gai is a popular and super tasty dimsum dish of steamed glutinous rice topped with Chinese sausage and dark soy sauce chicken and mushrooms. Glutinous rice, also known as sweet or sticky rice can be easily purchased at any Asian grocery store..

Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken and Mushroom) Add some fried shallots and mushroom slices, a few slices of Chinese sausages and seasoned chicken and pork slices. Fill up with glutinous rice and press down with a ladle. Turn over the rice bowl onto a plate and serve Loh Mai Kai. You can cook Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken and Mushroom) using 27 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken and Mushroom)

  1. It's of glutinous rice.
  2. Prepare of boneless thighs.
  3. Prepare of Chinese mushrooms.
  4. You need of lapcheong (Chinese sausage).
  5. You need of garlic, chopped.
  6. You need of oil.
  7. It's of egg (optional).
  8. You need of Glutinous Rice Seasoning.
  9. It's of light soy sauce.
  10. It's of dark soy sauce.
  11. It's of salt.
  12. You need of sugar.
  13. You need of sesame oil.
  14. It's of fried shallot oil.
  15. It's of white pepper.
  16. It's of water x2.
  17. Prepare of Chicken Marinade.
  18. Prepare of oyster sauce.
  19. Prepare of corn starch.
  20. Prepare of Chinese cookong wine.
  21. You need of ginger juice.
  22. It's of light soya sauce.
  23. You need of dark soya sauce.
  24. Prepare of 5 spice powder.
  25. Prepare of white pepper.
  26. You need of salt.
  27. It's of sugar.

This is Malaysian style glutinous chicken rice (Lor Mai Kai - 糯米鸡) that I grew up eating. In the old days, it was common to Lor mai kai is without salted egg yolk originally, but I added salted egg yolk as T loves salted egg yolk very much. Also, I have left out Chinese sausage this time, no stock on hand. 'Lo mai gai' or chinese steamed glutinous rice with chicken, mushrooms and Chinese sausages is a common dim sum dish. Chinese Steamed Glutinous Rice with Chicken, Lor Mai Kai, 糯米鸡.

Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken and Mushroom) instructions

  1. Rinse and soak glutinous rice for at least 6 hours, then drain. (Note: This helps to soften the rice).
  2. Marinate chicken, soak mushrooms. Slice mushrooms and lapcheong to stir fry in garlic and oil..
  3. Boil egg and slice into 6 wedges. Stir fry chicken with marinade..
  4. Heat up oil in pan to fry the glutinous rice in seasoning and 1/2 cup of water till fragrant. Add the other 1/2 cup of water at the end to stand for a bit..
  5. Put some chicken, mushrooms, lapcheong and an egg wedge into each bowl. Then add glutinous rice. Place bowls into steamer..
  6. Pour leftover sauce from chicken into each bowl and steaming for about 30 minutes. Topple bowl contents onto a plate to serve..

While this glutinous rice dish always uses chicken, the vegetarian version is quite popular too. It has been a long time since I had a good one. The Siew Pau stall sold this. Some recipes require cooking the glutinous rice first, then steam the rice after assembling the cooked rice with chicken and other ingredients. Place chicken, mushrooms, shrimps and lap cheong into the pot of your rice cooker or a large non-stick cooking pot.