Coconut Mango Sticky Brown Rice

Author Notes

In the early 1990's, my brother studied as an exchange student in Indonesia and his letters to me described the street food he ate on a daily basis. Attempting to find recipes that I could replicate at home I scoured my suburban library and came up with nothing. I settled for a Thai cookbook (geographically that was the closest I could get via cookbooks to Indonesia back then!) and have adapted this recipe over the years to mimic what I imagined my brother was eating as a sweet end to his meal. You can imagine that coconut milk and mangoes in 1992 were quite hard to find and I made trips into NYC and Central/South American and Asian markets in the NY metro area to satisfy my urge for this simply made treat. Usually made for dessert, I find it divine in the morning, cold and served with a steaming cup of coffee. —testkitchenette