The traditional way to prepare this dish is both time consuming and laborious. You need to stir-fry the glutinous rice in the wok till it was cooked. Stir-frying glutinous rice in a wok is difficult as glutinous rice is sticky and easy to get burnt.
When cooking this dish, full concentration is necessary to ensure that the rice and ingredients are properly cooked at the same time.
To make cooking easier, we can use a non-stick frying pan. Another cheating way is by pre-steaming the rice first before stir-frying; or stir-fry first follow by steaming. Though the texture of the rice will be slightly different.
This is a very versatile dish, you can serve this for breakfast or snack or at the end of a eight course meal. You can choose what ingredients you want to put in, you can have more or less than eight ingredients.
As this is prepared for our Chinese New Year celebration, I have added extra ingredients to make this more luxurious. Our friends will be impressed by this traditional savoury fried glutinous rice.
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