Glutinous Oil Rice

"Glutinous Oild Rice" ,briefly called "Oil Rice", is common for a snack in Taiwan night market and for a present of celebrating the first month of a newborn baby. Somebody would sacrifice oil rice when a traditional Chinese festival - "Qi-Xi". I'm not sure the origin of oil rice but it has a long history.##CONTINUE##
The main material of oil rice is Glutinous Rice, which was used in previous posted dish "Steamed Pork Slices with Glutinous Rice Flour". So that it tastes sticky, not grain of clear. Besides, the minced pork, Shiitake, dried shelled shrimp, and so on are indispensable as well. I introduced Glutinous Rice before hence today focus on Shiitake and dried shelled shrimp that enable to increase the fragrance. Both of they matched with each other and are used in many courses.

Shiitake, a sort of mushroom, is a usual material on Chinese food. Because it contains light not heavy flavor, we don't regard it as a primary material. However, it is perfect to play the second role or supporting role or even provisional actor. For the purpose of preservation and delivery, Shiitake would be dehydrated and then packeted. When preparing to cook, my mom dips Shiitake into water and waits it to expand. During the dip process, the fragrance would release much more because of chemical action.

We generally call dried shelled shrimp "Shrimp Rice" because its size is just similar to a grain of rice. Shrimp Rice is dried and has to dip into water before use like Shiitake. It also has a distinct fragrance and is suitable as a seasoning. I hated Shrimp Rice while I was a child because it tastes crisp like eating minced shrimp shell. But somebody love this texture. I feel not bad now with it in oil rice. In the picture, the grain of Shrimp Rice is bigger then general one and not be called "Rice", I think.

There are some other courses that looks like Oil Rice, such as Zongzi or Rice Cake in Bamboo Tube. (I will introduce them if having chance.) In addition, we eat that kinds of food with sweet spicy sauce. It's wonderful for that combination.