Description
Taro & Sticky Rice with Coconut Cream is a type of Asian hot dessert where rice and taro is served in a sweet coconut cream, you can usually find this in Vietnamese restaurants but it is popular as well with other Asian Cuisine.
Ingredients
Scale
Rice Pudding
- 2/3 cup glutinous rice (white, black or mix)
- 1 large taro, cut into cubes
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 cups water
- 1 cup coconut milk
Coconut Cream Sauce
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup sugar (or more, adjust to your liking)
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- In a pot boil the water, once boiling add the taro and cook for 15 minutes or until taro is tender. Scoop out and set aside the taro leaving liquid in the pot. Add the coconut milk sugar and salt bring it again to a boil.
- Rinse glutinous rice then place it in the boiling mixture, turn heat to low then cook rice for 15-20 minutes or until rice is soft, occasionally stir to prevent rice sticking from the bottom of the pot.
- Turn heat off, there should be a small amount of liquid remaining don’t worry about this as the rice will absorb this reaming water.
- In a saucepan combine all coconut cream sauce ingredients, bring it to a boil then let it thicken. Turn heat off.
- Scoop some rice pudding into a bowl, top with several pieces of taro then pour some coconut cream sauce on top.
Oh my gosh! This looks so crazy good! I went to visit Manila for the first time with my b/f and had vegan Filipino dishes 🙂 I was surprised that a lot of Filipino dishes are similar to both Japanese and Chinese cuisine!
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This sounds like a sweet and satisfying dessert. I’m always impressed how you recreate restaurant dishes at home with such ease. This looks delicious.
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Love, love, LOVE! So decadent. Just yum!
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Dear Raymund,
There are so many different versions of this dessert and I know friends who love it though I find it a little too rich.
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Raymund, I have not had this combo for a while…looks delicious, I love the texture of this dessert…yum!
Thank you so much for the kind words, I really appreciate 😀
Enjoy your week!
I do love a good rice pudding, but I’ve only had the ones with raisins, never one with taro. With the coconut cream I bet this is delicious!
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I love this chinese dessert, but since i’ve had this as daily hospital breakfast once my twins niece hospitalized for three weeks…
that’s made some bad memory about it….
Am getting my stash of black sticky rice incoming from Laos through a colleague pretty soon. This is on the top of my list!
Yum! Vietnamese is great. This combines all of my favorites into one! Wow. Gorgeous photo too.
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I think every culture has its own form of rice pudding, I’d love to try this one day. When we have Vietnamese I am usually too full for dessert.
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One of my favorite desserts back in the days, in Malaysia 🙂
This looks so good, thick, rich and creamy. We call it bubur cacar in Malaysia. Add some sweet potatoes, nice too.
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