Tubing In Laos

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cooking wild and white rice together?

When i was in laos they use to cook wild and white rice together with sweet coconut and stuff it into bamboo tubes and then cover the ends with grated dried coconut....yum. But what i want to know is how to cook wild rice with white rice together in the same pot. You could tell they did this in lao because the white rice would take on a purple hue. Im guessing you add the full amount of water for both rices in one pot, start steaming the wild and then add the white a lil way though, but how much water?....any suggestions appreciated, want it for dinner tonight! Bec

The rices in Laos are different to the ones here, US wild rice will not do, you need to find and Asian store and get the black/purple sticky rice, and to do it here, you soak them in water, rinse, then part cook them, then mix with coconut milk, sweetened coconut, regular sugar or palm sugar, then with a piece of parchment paper you make a small packet, then wrap that in foil and steam or boil for 2 hours, if you can find lotus or bamboo leaves these work better, it is like a Chinese sticky rice dumpling.

I worked in Japan and Singapore and while there I toured Thailand and Vietnam, I had a dish like this in Singapore done with the lotus leaves.

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