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Thingyan Rice

Name: Thingyan Rice
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mon
Ingredients: 400 g Jasmine rice; 1.5 L Cold water for soaking the rice; 1 handful Jasmine flowers, or pandan leaf; 2 Green mango, shredded; 150 g Salted mustard greens or pickled radish; 6 Dried chillies, fried; 4 tbsp Fried onion; 2 tbsp Toasted sesame seeds; 2 tbsp Tamarind paste; 1 tbsp Palm sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 300 g Ice

Cooked rice cooled in jasmine-scented water and eaten cold with mango, fried fish and salted vegetables — a Mon dish for the hottest days of the year, when Myanmar throws water at itself for a week.

Fonte

Receita de Mon home kitchens · 🏺 Tradicional · Mon household cooking of lower Myanmar

Myanmar · Mon New Year cold rice — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms Thingyan rice as a Mon dish served during Thingyan, the festival marking the Burmese New Year, and that Thingyan Htamin started with the Mon people in lower Burma. The cold-steeping rule, the jasmine safety note, the quantities and the side dishes are this book's own.

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Modo de preparo

Cook the rice slightly firmer than usual and spread it on a tray to cool completely.
Steep the jasmine or pandan in the cold water for 30 minutes, then lift the flowers out and chill the water hard with the ice.
💡 Cold steeping, never hot. Heat pulls a green bitterness out of jasmine, while cold water takes only the scent.
Tip the cooled rice into the scented water and leave it 10 minutes, then drain it in a sieve.
Dress the shredded mango with the tamarind, palm sugar and salt.
Serve the rice in bowls with a ladle of the cold water poured over, and the mango, pickles, fried chilli, onion and sesame arranged around it.

💡 Dicas

It is eaten in April, when Yangon runs at 40°C and the whole country is soaked. Cold rice is not a sad meal there — it is the only sensible one.
Fried fish or a salted duck egg on the side turns it into a full meal, and that is how it is usually served. Left plain it stays vegan.