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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Heart-shaped Blue Butterfly Pea Sticky Rice Serves 4
Sticky rice 1 kg Mung beans, peeled 300 gr Butterfly pea flowers 50 gr Grated coconut 200 gr Coconut milk 50 gr (water 1) Fresh pandan leaves 200 gr Sugar/ salt a little
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose good sticky rice for making xôi
- To make delicious xôi, you should buy “nếp cái hoa vàng” sticky rice, as this type of sticky rice will be more fragrant and softer when cooked compared to other types.
- In addition, when buying, you should choose grains that are of uniform size, appear plump, shiny, and are not broken or show signs of yellowing or mold.
- Moreover, good and fresh sticky rice will have a light, characteristic fragrance of new sticky rice.
- Do not choose sticky rice that has a strong, unpleasant smell when sniffed. To ensure safety and avoid buying sticky rice mixed with low-quality grains, you should buy from reputable rice shops or supermarkets or TasteVN.
How to choose and where to buy butterfly pea flowers
- When buying butterfly pea flowers, you should choose dried flowers that meet standards, with blooms that are deep purple or dark blue, and stems that are dark green, without any foul or musty smell.
- For safety, you should buy butterfly pea flowers from mixing shops or in well-known large tea shops that are carefully packaged with clear origin information and printed expiration dates and production dates.
- Currently, the price for 500 grams of dried butterfly pea flowers ranges from 350,000 to 450,000 VND (price updated in September 2021).
How to choose fresh green beans
- When buying green beans, you should choose those that have a bright yellow color, uniform color, and do not have any blotches or unusual colors.
- In addition, fresh green beans will be plump, not flat, with a uniform size, and there should be no differences in size.
- Specifically, when holding the beans, they should feel hard and firm, not soft or crumbly.
- Do not choose green beans that are eaten by worms or have a musty, unpleasant smell and have broken seeds. This is because these are old or spoiled green beans.
Tools needed
Blender, steamer pot, pan, plate, heart-shaped sticky rice mold,…
How to make sticky rice with butterfly pea flower and heart-shaped green beans
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Steaming green beans
Wash the green beans thoroughly, soak them in water for about 8 hours to soften the beans, then rinse again with clean water.
Next, place a pot on the stove, add about 500ml of water, set the steamer on top, then add the washed green beans along with 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and mix well to ensure the salt is evenly absorbed by the beans.
Cover the pot and steam over medium heat for about 8 minutes until the green beans are soft, then turn off the heat and scoop the steamed beans into the blender.
Start the machine and blend at high speed until the green beans are smooth, then turn off the machine and scoop the green beans onto a plate.
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Cooking butterfly pea flower water and mixing sticky rice
Boil 800ml of water in a pot over high heat until it boils, then add 50g of dried butterfly pea flowers, cook for about 8 minutes over medium heat to extract the essence of the butterfly pea flower. Turn off the heat and let it cool.
After buying, rinse the sticky rice briefly with water and then soak it in the cooled butterfly pea flower essence mixture for about 8 hours until the sticky rice grains soften and turn light green. Remove the sticky rice and rinse it briefly with clean water.
Tip: To make the sticky rice more delicious and flavorful, you do not need to filter out the butterfly pea flowers but can mix and steam them together with the sticky rice and beans.
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Stir-frying sticky rice and mixing with mung beans
Add 1kg of sticky rice that has been soaked in butterfly pea flower extract along with 50gr of first-grade coconut milk into the pan, then place the pan on the stove. Stir-fry on low heat for about 5 minutes until the coconut milk is completely absorbed by the sticky rice.
Then add 1/2 of the mashed mung beans into the pan, and continue to stir-fry gently on low heat for another 3 minutes until the mung beans and sticky rice are well mixed, then turn off the heat.
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Steaming butterfly pea flower sticky rice
First, pick the pandan leaves, wash them clean, and drain, then add about 500ml of water into the steamer pot, then evenly arrange the washed pandan leaves on the steamer and place all the stir-fried sticky rice and mung beans in.
Place a few more cleaned pandan leaves on top of the sticky rice and cover it. Steam over medium heat for about 15 minutes until the sticky rice and mung beans are cooked and fragrant, then turn off the heat.
Tip: If you cannot steam all the sticky rice in one steamer, you can stack another steamer on top and steam them together at the same time!
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Forming the heart shape
Put the steamed sticky rice into a large bowl along with half of the remaining mashed mung beans and half of the grated coconut, mix well until the sticky rice, mung beans, and grated coconut are evenly combined, then fill a heart-shaped mold.
Then, add some mashed mung beans and some remaining grated coconut. Use the mold lid to press tightly to shape the sticky rice into a heart shape, then flip the mold over and slowly remove it from the sticky rice to complete.
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Final Product
The Blue Butterfly Pea Sticky Rice with Green Beans shaped like a heart will have an enticing aroma of pandan leaves when completed. When eaten, one will experience the nutty flavor of green beans and the sticky, fragrant, rich taste of the glutinous rice.
The grated coconut adds a crunchy, sweet taste that makes the dish even more delicious and appealing, enhancing the joy and completeness of the family’s 20/10 celebration.
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Finally, the delicious and sticky blue butterfly pea sticky rice with green beans shaped like a heart has been completed to give to mom on this October 20th! Wishing you success with the recipe shared by TasteVN above and a meaningful holiday with your mother!
