The other day I was craving some of my mom's sticky rice and called her up to ask for the recipe. This is how awesome my mom is: She was able to tell me how to make it right then and there without looking anything up! She was excited to share this new technique she developed where she first par-cooks the sweet rice and then bakes it off in a casserole dish instead of using a rice cooker. Apparently, when you use a rice cooker, the sticky rice can get too mushy—but when using this technique it's always "QQ," or chewy.
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<br />Instead of cooking the aromatics in a different pan and then transferring everything into a casserole dish, I just used my Dutch oven (don't know how I lived without this baby!). If you don't have one, just transfer the rice to a casserole dish with a lid, or do what my mom does and cover it with aluminum foil.
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<br />My mom usually makes this with pork or chicken, but I decided to make it with Chinese sausage (which I guess makes it more Cantonese than Taiwanese). You can find the Chinese sausage and fried shallots (sometimes labelled fried red onions) in a Chinese grocery store. If you like cilantro, it makes a great topping, but if you don't, it still tastes great without it. For a little kick, I highly recommend serving it with some sweet chili sauce.

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