The Art of Making Khao Dom Ga Ti - Sticky Rice in Coconut Wrapped in Banana Leaves

Ingredients for Khao Dom Ga Ti - Sticky Rice in Coconut Wrapped in Banana Leaves*

• 4 cups glutinous "Sticky" Rice (khao niao)
• 1 cup sugar (nam tan)
• 400mls coconut water or coconut milk watered down (nam maprao)
• 5-10 bananas (gluay) cut length-ways and then into 5cm pieces (small bananas are better)
• 1 teaspoon salt (glua)
• peanuts (tua din) (optional)
• banana leaves (bai dtaawng)(pre-cut into pieces 25cm (L) x 14cm (W)(baking paper may work instead of banana leaves but I haven't tried it)

*the amount for each ingredients is variable according to taste and how many &lqt;parcels&rqt; you want to make. Makes about 40 parcels. Yai (Grandmother) showed me how to make this recipe. Your banana leaf parcels may not look neat and tidy to begin with but practice makes perfect. 1. Cook the rice by first washing the rice and then soaking it for 1 hour or overnight. Cook in a steamer with the salt and peanuts for about 20 minutes. 2. Boil the coconut water rapidly for 10 minutes, then add the sugar 3. When the rice is cooked stir into coconut water until thoroughly combined taking care not to let it burn on the bottom of the pan. 4. Put a dessert spoonful of rice length-ways in a banana leaf. Place a slice of banana on top of the rice then put another spoonful of rice on top of the banana. 5. Wrap by rolling tightly length-ways and then folding over and tucking under the ends of the banana leaf. It's important to pack the rice tightly in the parcel (it takes a little practice). The finished size of the parcel should be about 10cm long x 4cm wide. 6. Place parcels in a steamer for 10 minutes. Enjoy hot or cold.
Yummy - Saab Lai

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Banpao Rural Art Centre (BRAC)

Founded in 2002 by Dr. Apichart Pholprasert, BRAC is designed to be a centre for creative practitioners to work in a Thai rural context along side friendly farmers. It is set up in a Banpao village, Chiyaphum Province, north east of Thailand. The philosophy for BRAC's creative activities is based on a correspondence between artistic and agricultural practices.

Plan of the art centre.

Wendy Grace Allen was Artist-in-Residence at BRAC from late 2008 till early 2009, where she worked on The Border Crossing Art Project and her up and coming Rural Go Go exhibition.

Air and Apichart Pholprasert and Wendy and Warwick Allen outside BRAC.

Wendy with an art student and his painting.

Children’s art at BRAC

Assistant Professor Dr. Caroline Mercier (Department of Theatre, California State University) was artist-in-residence from June 15^th–August 18^th 2006.

Photos from Dr. Mercier's residency.

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo