Wonderful comfort food, a creamy rice pudding was always served in our house with a swirl of jam. Aarroz con leche is popular all over Spain and often sweetened with honey instead of sugar.
Ingredients:
- 80g dried cranberries or dried cherries, or a mixture
- 50ml rum
- 50g butter plus extra for greasing the dish
- 75g caster sugar
- 125g pudding rice
- 700ml milk
- 200ml double cream
- 1/4 tsp vanilla paste
- Nutmeg
Step by step:
- Preheat your oven to 140C / Gas 1. Soak the raisins or other fruit in the rum and set to one side. Butter a 1 – 1.5 litre baking dish.
- Melt the butter in a pan and add the sugar. Gently dissolve over a low heat. Stir in the rice until well coated and cook for another minute or two. Now add the milk, cream and vanilla paste and bring to the boil.
- Pour the mixture into a baking dish and gently stir in the booze soaked raisins. Top with a grating of nutmeg. Bake for 75 minutes until its golden and cooked through.
Notes:
- If you prefer to use a vanilla pod and seeds, simply split the vanilla pod and scrape out the seeds. Add the seeds in place of the vanilla paste. The split vanilla pod makes a nice decoration if you are serving the rice pudding in the baking dish to the table.
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