Hmong Sausage with Purple Sticky Rice

Hmong Sausage with Purple Sticky Rice

Hmong Sausage with Purple Sticky Rice

This sausage and purple sticky rice is unbelievably good and really easy to make. All of the sausage ingredients get mixed together and formed onto skewers, much like making kofta or koobideh kabobs. You can either broil or grill the sausage skewers for 6-7 minutes a side. The sausage skewers and sticky rice get served with tiger sauce, which contains cilantro, garlic, Thai chilies, lime juice, oyster and fish sauce. It’s actually really spicy, but goes very well with the sausage. This is a great appetizer for parties and is equally great as your main course.
Prep Time25 minutes
Cook Time45 minutes
Rice Soaking Time8 hours
Course: Appetizer, Main Course
Cuisine: Hmong
Keyword: appetizer, East Asian, Hmong, main course, Pork, rice, Southeast Asian
Author: Alex Gorgos

Equipment

  • food processor
  • metal skewers
  • sticky rice steamer basket
  • cheese cloth

Ingredients

Hmong Sausage

  • 1 1/2 lbs ground pork
  • 2 tbsp ginger
  • 2 tbsp lemongrass
  • 2 tbsp garlic cloves
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 Thai chilies
  • 1 tsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper

Purple Sticky Rice

  • 1 1/2 cups sticky rice
  • 1/2 cup black sticky rice

Tiger Sauce

  • 1 bunch cilantro chopped
  • 4 garlic cloves minced
  • 3 Thai chilies minced
  • 1/4 cup lime juice
  • 2 tsp fish sauce
  • 1 tsp oyster sauce

Instructions

Tiger Sauce

  • Add all of the ingredients to a food processor.
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  • Process until all of the ingredients are incorporated with each other.
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  • Refrigerate until ready for use.
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Purple Sticky Rice

  • Soak the white and black sticky rices in water for at least 8 hours.
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  • Bring 2” of water to a boil in the bottom of a sticky rice steamer. Line a sticky rice bamboo basket with cheese cloth. Pour in the rice. Fold over the cheesecloth to cover. Place a cover on the steamer basket. Steam for 45 minutes.
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Hmong Sausage

  • Add the ginger, garlic, lemongrass, and chilies to a food processor.
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  • Process until evenly chopped.
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  • Mix in all of the ingredients to the ground pork.
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  • Depending on the size you’re looking for, form the sausage into 6-8 equal sized meatballs.
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  • Form each of the meatballs into the shape of a sausage on metal skewers.
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  • Turn on the oven’s broiler. Place the skewers on a wire rack on a baking sheet lined in foil.
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  • Broil the sausage for 6-7 minutes a side. Alternatively, you can grill the sausage for the same amount of time.
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Serve the skewers over the sticky rice with a side of the tiger sauce.