How to Prepare Perfect Puto Maya/Sticky Rice

Puto Maya/Sticky Rice.

You can cook Puto Maya/Sticky Rice using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Puto Maya/Sticky Rice

1. Prepare of glutinous rice or malagkit rice.
2. You need of coconut milk or gata.
3. You need of sugar.
4. You need of salt.
5. You need of chopped ginger.

Puto Maya/Sticky Rice step by step

1. Wash glutinous rice to remove impurities and until water is clear. Soak it in water overnight..
2. In a bowl, mix coconut milk, sugar, salt and ginger. Then pour in the liquid mixture and the glutinous rice in a wok..
3. Cook in medium heat. Make sure to stir from time to time to prevent rice from sticking at the bottom of the pan..
4. Once the milk turns to transparent or oily, thats your cue that its ready to be transferred in the steamer..
5. Place banana leaves at the bottom and place your partially cooked malagkit rice. Steam for 20-30mins..
6. Pasck it in banana leaves and serve with hot sikwate, muscovado sugar or ripe mango..