Sawaddee ka welcome to hot thai kitchen I am in Bangkok Thailand and I happen to be here in June
which doesn't usually happen - it's really hot and soon so I try to avoid it but being
here in June is great for one thing and that is durian yes it is durian season so I thought what
an opportune moment to make a dessert that is my absolute favorite durian dish and that is durian
and sticky rice or cameo kao niew turien kao niew is sticky rice and turien is durian it also happens to be
my guest favorites dessert and it's his birthday yesterday so yeah it'll be his birthday thing it
is so easy it's one of the easiest dessert ever and if you can't get fresh durian you can also
use frozen durian in this dessert it won't break the dish and if your durian lover definitely try
it if you're not a durian lover try it anyway you might change your mind all right let's get
started so the durian we don't we're not going to do anything to it but the most important thing is
you want to make sure it's ripe because we want this to be soft and creamy and if it's
under rightly to be kind of crunchy and almost a bit starchy not good okay I'm using mom's Hong
which is the name of a variety that's mostly widely available not too expensive and quite a
mild flavor you can use other varieties that have a more pungent flavor as well if you want is kind
of up to you now the sticky rice is exactly the same as a sticky rice use for mango and sticky
rice so if you already know how to make that then this part is a breeze okay so I'll just
quickly go through how the secure ice is made I've got some Thai sticky rice steaming away
in my traditional bamboo steamer if you want to know more about sticky rice I have a few videos
actually about sticky rice make sure I'll put the link in the description below and also right
up here now I'm going to make the coconut syrup that we're going to pour over the rice just some
coconut milk and I'm just going to sweeten it with some sugar but I'm actually reducing the
amount of coconut milk sorry ID amount of sure a little bit from my mango sticky rice version
because the durian is already quite sweet a little bit of salt to cut the sweetness and
just going to put this on the sole to let the sugar and the salt will dissolve and that's
that okay so good sticky rice it's ready to go so it's going to plop it right into whoo we have
some pandan leaves at home so I just kind of put them in just for extra flavor you don't have to
hand and leave like the Thai vanilla Oh hot just going to quickly pour my syrup over this rice hot
everything is not hot yeah and now I'm going to cut it quickly work and it looks really soupy do
not worry it will absorb all of that liquid and become luscious and juicy and that is it so we'll
let this sit it will take in my sphere is about 40 minutes easy VARs number one is finished now
is easy bar number two we're basically making a durian soup that we're going to pour over as
a sticky rice and the broth is so simple I've got here just some coconut milk and I'm going
to sweeten it with palm sugar and this is the crucial part is you have to use palm sugar if
you substitute white sugar or any other kind you're going to miss that flavor from the palm
sugar that is absolutely key in this dish so this is the one thing I will say don't substitute okay
and I'm actually using this pasty palm sugar here that I can actually find in Canada so I'm excited
to use it although I kind of have to play with it as I go because I'm not used to you know the
proportions of how much of this I would need this is the same palm sugar as the ones that you see me
use in blocks except they don't reduce it down as far so it's more liquid and it is easier to
use here it comes in a bag like this right and so you just take a spoon and spoon it out it's like
this thick paste that's really really delicious oh so good and now I'm going to add a little salt
ways to cut the sweetness and would you believe that that is all there is to it apart from you
know adding the durian but now I'm just going to put this on the stove let the sugar melt and
then I'm going to taste it and again since we're working with fresh fruit you want to make sure you
work with the natural sweetness of the fruit if the fruit is very sweet this may not need to be
that sweet if the search is last week maybe you didn't get a really ripe one maybe you want to
make this a little sweet so the syrup is done and I did end up having to taste and add a little more
sugar but you want it to be be quite sweet but not too sweet because this is going to be like poured
all over your sticky rice which is already sweet right so now while this is still hot I want to
get my durian even there because then the durian will have a chance to sort of infuse the flavor
into the syrup and so I just make chunks like this see so good I just make little chunks like this so
it's a little bigger than bite size you don't want to make it too small because otherwise it just
looks like a little random bits of weird stuff in there some people at this point they like to cook
the durian in the syrup and you can do that if your if you want the durian to really integrate
with the syrup but I find that that just risks overcooking the during a little bit so you can do
that definitely if your durian is not too mushy and you can pack as much durian in here as you
like since you're making it yourself see when you buy dirt and sticky rice I find they never give
you enough during because that's the expensive part right so when you make it yourself you're
like yeah I'm going to like pack this thing now I'm going to let that just sort of sit and infuse
a little bit while that's happening let's take a look at the sticky rice hmm and how it's doing
whew most of the syrups already been absorbed just going to give it one quick flip just because you
notice the bottom has some liquid pooling and I just find giving it a big fold halfway through it
just makes it more evenly distributed okay that has 20 more minutes to go about 20 more minutes
to go and then they'll both finish perfectly at the same time my sticky rice is ready to go
it's still warm my broth Derian broth is ready to go time to put it all together and not too
much because you know it's like a pretty heavy dish right so you just usually people just have
that much sticky rice and then the durian has sort of like softened a little bit in the heat
it's infused the flavor into the coconut broth oh yeah that's like way more durian than any vendor
would give you then you kind of break apart the sticky rice so that it mixes with the syrup Oh
especially when it's warm it's still good the durian just kind of dissolves on your tongue
because it's hot and warm it's creamy and then you get to chew on the sticky rice all the flavor work
together really well and the durian flavor isn't that pungent it is something have include ones
it's mixed with the coconut milk and once it's heated a little bit and the durian is that the
perfect ripeness it's just so so good this is a must try of your during lover if you're not during
lover again I think you should try it and maybe it'll change your mind I hope you give this a try
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