Jasmine rice has a sweeter taste and a stickier grain than most kinds of rice. We make Jasmine Sticky Rice to serve up with our Asian meals.
Its very simple to make, when you know the right rice to water ratio. We will give that to you in this article!
Is Jasmine Rice and Sticky Rice the same thing?
Jasmine Rice and glutinous (sticky) rice are 2 different types of rice.
Jasmine rice is mostly grown in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, it is naturally sticky when cooked.
Although, not as sticky as glutinous or sushi rice.
How do I make Jasmine Rice sticky?
The key to making your Jasmine sticky rice is to NOT wash it first!!
Other kinds of rice should be rinsed of starch before cooking.
However, Jasmine rice needs the starch which when cooked, acts like a glue to hold the rice grains together!
What pan should I use for cooking rice?
When cooking rice you will need a simple lidded stainless steel saucepan (it does not need to be non-stick). You do not need to use a non-stick pan.
Do I use cold or hot water to cook rice?
Always pour cold water in with your rice, bring the water up to the boil with the rice. This is part of the cooking process to perfect your rice.
Rice to Water ratio for jasmine rice?
Simply measure your rice & cold water using the below ratio.
It is especially important to follow the measurements, during cooking the water will completely soak into the rice.
The below chart is how much rice : water you will need.
| Serves | rice | water |
| 2 people | 1 cup / 190g | 1 ⅓ cup / 330ml |
| 4 people | 2 cups / 380g | 2 ¾ cup / 660ml |
| 6 people | 3 cups / 570g | 4 ¼ cup / 990ml |
How much uncooked rice to cook to serve one person?
½ cup (95g) of uncooked rice makes a whole cup of cooked rice (250g). This is enough for one person.
What to add, to give flavour to Jasmine rice?
Jasmine rice is naturally very fragrant, for extra flavour try adding a pinch of salt & a star anise to give a subtle sweetness.
One Star Anise is fine or add two for a stronger flavour.
How to cook Jasmine Sticky Rice step by step?
Using the above measurements, bring the water to the boil with rice, keeping the lid off.
Once it has reached a boil, put a lid on and turn the heat to the lowest setting.
Put the timer on for 8 minutes. Do not feel tempted to open the lid during these 8 minutes, it will certainly ruin the result!!
After 8 minutes, turn the heat off, remove the lid.
Remove the Star Anise and use a fork to fluff up the Jasmine rice grains. You are ready to serve up!
How to serve rice nicely on a plate?
We like to serve our Jasmine Sticky Rice in a dome shape.
Use a small bowl, glass or even a teacup would work! Simply press the rice into the bowl, you don't need to press too hard, remember it is sticky anyway!
Then turn the bowl upside down onto the plate/bowl you are serving it in!
Finally, add your curry around or to the side of your perfectly cooked Jasmine Rice!
What to serve Jasmine rice with?
Jasmine Sticky Rice tastes fabulous served with any Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese dishes.
As seen above served with our delicious Pressure Cooker Thai Beef Massaman.
Jasmine Sticky Rice
Equipment
Ingredients
- 380 grams (2 cups) Jasmine Rice
- 660 ml (2 ¾ cups) Water
- 1 Star Anise
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- DO NOT WASH YOUR RICE!! You need the starch to make it sticky!
- Add both rice & water into a stainless steel pan, the water should be cold.
- Optional - Add a pinch of salt & star anise for flavourBring to the boil with the lid off.Once it reaches the boil, turn the temperature to a lower setting and place the lid on for 8 minutes.Do not remove the lid during this time!
- After 8 minutes turn off the heat. For best results leave to sit for 5 minutes with the lid still on to allow any remaining liquid to soak up into the rice.Remove the lid and the star anise.
- Use a fork to separate grains a little and you are ready to serve your sticky jasmine rice!
Video
Notes
Rice to water ratio
Here is the correct measurment to how many people you are serving. UK measurement 2 people - 190 gram rice - 330 ml water 4 people - 380 gram rice - 660 ml water 6 people - 570 gram rice - 990 ml water US measurement 2 people - 1 cup rice - 1 ⅓ cup water 4 people - 2 cups rice - 2 ¾ cup water 6 people - 3 cups rice - 4 ¼ cup waterNutrition
Or, try out some of our other recipes to go with it.
Let us know how you got on with this recipe, and what you like to serve your rice with?
Great results! My normal Jasmine rice calls for 1 cup rice and 1 1/2 cup water, so I was hesitant to try this new ratio. However, the 1 1/3 cup water worked perfectly! I didn’t have any anise so I used Chinese five-spice and garlic powder. Came out AMAZING!
Thanks, Rachel, for the comment and rating, it's really appreciated 🙂
Reall good to hear you liked our method of cooking jasmine rice, if you like rice recipes, you might like to try out our Coconut Pilau Rice it's delicious!!
Enjoy;)
I am always looking for way to perfect my rice. I love the Jasmine Rice over all other rice that I have tried.
Have been struggling with perfect rice for a while now. Always fancied doing sticky rice (my favourite)... thanks to your tutorial I produced my best ever today. Pretty much perfect. People mentioning it took longer than 8mins didn't apply to me. Maybe they forgot to factor in the bring it to boil time before counting down the 8mins? Anyway.. worked for me. Nothing fancy about my gas hob. Perhaps induction hobs are different. Either way.. Bye bye soggy disappointing rice. Thankyou so much!!!
Hi Henry,
Thank you for your message, we are glad our recipe helped you achieve the best sticky Jasmine rice.
Like you said the time it takes to boil the water is an important part of cooking too, maybe some people are pouring in already boiled water??? Which will not begin the cooking process the same as boiling from cold water?
We are going to be putting out other how to cook rice recipes soon, as it something a lot of people struggle with! Have you seen our Coconut Pilau Rice and Onion Rice?
Thanks,
Kay
I used this recipe to make sticky rice for sushi instead of sushi rice and it was perfect! It is so much cheaper than sushi rice, and tastes great! Thanks!
Thanks, Jeri
Really glad the sticky rice worked for your sushi 🙂
I love your tips! Thank you so much!
Thanks, Jo
Glad the tips came in handy to cook the jasmine sticky rice 🙂
Very informative post. Love the way your enjoy this sticky rice with yummy combinations of gravies. This looks like a comfort meal for sure.
Thanks, Veena
Really glad you found our sticky rice blog informative 🙂
Enjoy!!
The jasmine flavor comes through beautifully and the rice is perfectly cooked. Great recipe!
Thanks, Caitlyn
Glad you liked the recipe 🙂
So many awesome tips here on how to cook jasmine rice! Sure to come out perfect every time. Thanks so much for the great article!
Thanks, Angela
Glad you liked the blog, always helps to cook the perfect sticky rice 🙂
Perfect sticky Jasmine rice every time! So grateful to have found your site and this recipe! Thanks.
Thanks, Melinda
So glad to hear you like our site and our Jasmine rice recipe 🙂
Enjoy!!
Wow, I've learned so much from reading your post. Thank you! I'm eager to serve rice to my family now that I know all the secrets for a perfect serving.
This is really helpful! Thank you so much for the tips! Jasmine rice is a favorite at my house and I'm always looking for ways to make it perfect!
Thanks, Toni, hope you enjoy our method and our recipe 🙂
Enjoy!!
Jasmine rice is my absolute favorite to serve with Thai dishes. The aroma is amazing. Thank you for sharing the fool proof method to make it perfect every time.
Hi Rachna
Really glad you like our recipe and love to hear great feedback on our method for cooking sticky rice 🙂
Enjoy!!
Perfect sticky rice. I served it with honey garlic chicken and the kids loved it!
Beth, that sounds delicious 🙂
So glad you all like the sticky rice recipe!!
Enjoy
I love all rice, especially jasmine rice - it's so fragrant and yummy! I have never tried to make sticky rice with it before, so I'm excited to try this!
Hi Danielle
Thanks for the comment, hope you enjoy the recipe, let us know how it goes 🙂
This is the first time I've actually perfectly cooked the rice. It held up when I tipped the cup upside down too! Very impressed.
Hi Laura, thanks for the comment
So glad you liked our jasmine sticky rice recipe 🙂
Always good to hear great feedback!!
It’s good start recipe but the rice is not sticky after following directions to a T. I recommend following the directions on your Jasmine rice bag.
Mine says simmer for 15 min. 8 minutes just wasn’t enough. Too watery. Used gas stove and non stick pot with lid only during simmer time.
Oh no, not sure why it hasn't worked for you?
This is one of our most visited pages and as you can tell from the ratings it works for most people, if you look at the comments some have needed more water but I have never seen anyone say too watery before?
We buy our Jasmine rice from Tesco supermarket, I wonder if the one you have bought has a longer/thicker grain?
We have a gas stove but use a stainless steel pot, not non-stick, but that shouldn't make too much difference?
I'm sorry it didn't work for you Cat.
Kind regards,
Ah my auntie has once made this perfect, sticky Jasmine rice and I could not recreate it until now, thank you ! Her trick is to add a dash of olive oil to the water too 😀
Hi Mikie
Thanks for the comment and rating, it's much appreciated 🙂
So glad you like the jasmine sticky rice recipe, a great tip with the oil never used that before!!
Can I use this type of rice for sushi?
Hi Traci
For making sushi, you should really use Japanese sushi rice, it has a smaller grain resulting in a better texture for sushi.
However, our method given here for cooking 'sticky' jasmine rice will work very similarly and makes a great substitute if you can not find sushi rice anywhere.
It will not negatively affect the flavour at all.
We will be sharing more sushi tips on our blog soon as we are big fans!!
Enjoy,
Luke & Kay
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This looks Incredibly delicious. I have to serve this soon for my family!
I am sure you will all enjoy x
Thank you for the perfect recipe to make the most perfect fragrant jasmine rice.
Wow, this is awesome, I have never cooked Jasmin rice before and you have given me all the reason to pick a packet of it during my next shopping. Thank you.
Yum, a good rice recipe is such a comfort food!
Recipe is wonderful. However, your conversion to US for the 2 cup recipe is incorrect. It should read 2 2/3 not 3 3/4.
This is delicious thanks for sharing this lovely meal.
This works...but it takes 30-40 minutes with 2 cups of rice. If it only takes you 8 minutes then you must be using a special jasmine minute rice.
I’m ready to go make some jasmine rice now.
Enjoy 🙂
Thanks! I will be trying this method today!
If I wanted to make it a sweet sticky rice with what I have on hand will that work? I was thinking cinnamon stick instead of the star anise and real maple syrup. That rice with fruit in a spring roll.
So inspired I tried it. After 8 minutes the rice wasn't cooked. I added more water, and left it on a while longer, added more water and let it cook a bit more. The rice smells like oatmeal and tastes delicious! I was testing this made up recipe so I did 1/2 c rice and water, 2.5 generous tbsp of maple syrup, and 1/2 cinnamon stick.
I just made it and found the same. I even added extra water as the measurements for 3 cups of rice did not work with the lower cup(s) to water ratios. Just added another half cup of water and hoping that will get it cooked all the way.
Hi Susan,
Thank you for your comments I am going to check the measurements again when I cook it next week?
Did the extra 1/2 cup help?
I may have written it down wrong on the instructions?
I loved making this! It was nice and easy and came out great! I was just wondering if I could make it in a normal pot rather than stainless steel.
Yes you can use any saucepan 😉
The recipe looked so good so tried making with red Thai curry today. It was as delicious as described with the flavour of star anise. Followed the rice to water ratio and it was cooked to perfection. Thanks for sharing .
That's great Nita, the star anise adds a great delicate flavour. 🙂
I love this rice, whenever i try this at the restaurant, it just lovely and delicate
Though a bit pricey, I love to eat Jasmine rice. The cost is double to triple of a regular milled rice
I've never tried making jasmine sticky rice before. Who knew that the secret was the water to rice ratio! I'm going to have to send this to a couple friends that I know love cooking Asian food. I'm sure they would benefit from knowing your secret 😉
looks delicious! i would love to give it a try. I love rice, my favorite
Wow! I like this sticky rice and the way of making I really like that .
Thank you, we love it too!
Wow. I love sticky rice and I usually associate this to Japanese or Thai rice. Thanks for sharing this recipe. I can now make my own.
Let us know how you get on xx
This sounds gorgeous.I’m actually considering making this.Thank you for sharing.
You won't be dissapointed 😉
Ohh this sounds so good! I am going to have to try this! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Carly, enjoy! 🙂