What is "sticky" rice?

Rae6503
Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm trying to make my husband rice cakes outs of "The Feed Zone" cookbook. It calls for calrose rice, or other "sticky" medium grain rice. Yeah, my Wal-mart didn't have any calrose. What qualifies a rice as "sticky"? I just bought regular medium grained rice.

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  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    hmm...hopefully someone else will weigh in on this! whatever they use for sushi is sticky...is that jasmine or basmati?
  • Allie_71
    Allie_71 Posts: 1,063 Member
    It's a short-grain glutinous rice that is missing one of the types of starches that most rice contains. So it is lower in starch than other rice and so cooks up more sticky. It's a specific type of rice. Look for glutinous rice on the package. Hope that helped.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    I'm trying to make my husband rice cakes outs of "The Feed Zone" cookbook. It calls for calrose rice, or other "sticky" medium grain rice. Yeah, my Wal-mart didn't have any calrose. What qualifies a rice as "sticky"? I just bought regular medium grained rice.

    Yeah, WalMart wouldn't have that because they suck. Look at a place that carries good quality food. They'll have it.
  • JonathonMars
    JonathonMars Posts: 358 Member
    I don't know. But now I want some. Thanks.
  • Luv2Smile55
    Luv2Smile55 Posts: 133 Member
    We can only find this type of rice at an Asian store. You might want to try that. :smile:
  • shicken684
    shicken684 Posts: 36
    You won't be able to use the rice you bought as "sticky rice", and your rice cakes will likely fall apart. Jasmine rice is kind of sticky, and sometimes used in sushi but isn't proper sticky rice. Go to an Asian market. You would be surprised how many there are, even in small towns, and it's almost a given you live by one.
  • Sharonks
    Sharonks Posts: 884 Member
    If it is what I'm thinking it is different than sushi rice.

    Sushi rice is regular, short grained rice. Calrose is one brand that makes it. You will often find it in the Asian foods section.

    Sticky rice is often used in Asian sweets. It cooks up even stickier than regular short grain. I have never seen it in a regular grocery but at Asian markets. It is probable that Calrose makes this too. It has been many years since I bought any and can't remember.

    That being said, a lot of people call the regular short grain rice sticky rice.
  • redhousecat
    redhousecat Posts: 584 Member
    sushi type rice, short grained rice. Rice used in Asian dishes. glutinous rice. There are alot of explanations out on google.
  • hooperkay
    hooperkay Posts: 463 Member
    No sticky rice is a Thai rice or sweet rice. Jasamine is not the same. Can find in specialty market or in walmart in international food isle. You soak it overnight and then steam it. Very good, but I think it has alot of calories just like white rice. Can order off Amazon too if you really like it.
  • FrugalMomsRock75
    FrugalMomsRock75 Posts: 698 Member
    I don't know what other stores you have besides WalMart, but my regular grocery stores have a better Asian section than WM does. Hannaford (which is Sweetbay here in FL) has a great International Foods section.

    Again-don't know what you have available.
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    Yeah, I was at Walmart for something else and he texted me the ingredients. Had I known I would be going for "different" things I would have gone elsewhere. The cakes have lots of other "sticky" things like chocolate, coconut, honey, sugar... I think I'll try it with regular rice. We shall see.
  • Crochetluvr
    Crochetluvr Posts: 3,374 Member
    I agree with going to an asian market. I get my calrose at an asian food market. Botan is the brand name.

    ETA - You can even buy it on Amazon.
  • FuneralDiner
    FuneralDiner Posts: 438 Member
    Thai rice or sushi rice is sticky.
  • tmarie2715
    tmarie2715 Posts: 1,111 Member
    Short grain rice is "sticky," like the rice they use in sushi. I never even tried medium or long grain rice until I was around 12 years old. It is disgusting! I can't believe people it eat.

    Short grain all the way!
  • Laddiegirl
    Laddiegirl Posts: 382 Member
    Calrose rice is a brand of a short grained sticky rice popular in most asian countries. You'll probably find it in the asian section of Safeway/Raleys, whatever your major grocery store chain is or an asian/international supermarket. I don't think I've ever seen it at Walmart or Target. My stepmom is Filipino and thats the rice she's always made and I agree that it is much better texture wise than long grain rice, especially with asian dishes.

    It is also used to make sushi, the difference in that instance is that you rinse the rice 3x in cold water to remove the starch (the water looks milky white and you rinse it till it is clear) so that it isn't sticky and can absorb the vinegar they add to sushi rice.
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