Thai
Khao Niao Mamuang (Mango with Sticky Rice)
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Khao Niao Mamuang (Mango with Sticky Rice) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Soak the glutinous rice overnight, then drain and steam until translucent and tender, about 20 minutes.
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Warm most of the coconut milk with the palm sugar and salt until dissolved.
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Pour two thirds of the sweetened coconut milk over the hot rice, stir gently, and let stand 15 minutes to absorb.
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Toast the split mung beans in a dry pan until fragrant and lightly golden.
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Slice the ripe mango.
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Serve the rice with mango alongside, drizzled with the remaining sweetened coconut milk and topped with the toasted mung beans, at the peak of the hot-season mango crop.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Khao Niao Mamuang (Mango with Sticky Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Khao Niao Mamuang (Mango with Sticky Rice) carries coconut. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 460 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 63 g
- Fat
- 20 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 17 g
- Sodium
- 300 mg
- Saturated fat
- 18 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Khao Niao Mamuang (Mango with Sticky Rice) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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