Spiced Orange Rice Pudding
Serves: 4 - 6
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 90 minutes
Ingredients
- 150g basmati rice
- 1 litre skimmed milk
- 250ml single cream
- 75g caster sugar
- grated zest and juice of 1 orange
- 2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 4 cardamom pods, crushed
Method
- Pre-heat your oven to 160C/gas mark 3.
- Pop the milk, cream, caster sugar, orange juice and vanilla into a saucepan and gently
- bring to the boil over a low heat.
- Meanwhile pour the rice into the buttered oven dish along with the nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom and orange zest, fold the spices into the rice.
- Pour the hot sweet milky mixture over the rice, cover with foil and bake for 40 minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon after 20 minutes.
- Remove the foil and continue to cook for
- a further 20 minutes until most of the liquid has absorbed into the rice.
- Leave to cool slightly and serve with a dollop of your favorite preserve. If you like a crispy skin on your rice pudding you can always pop the pudding under a hot grill with a little dusting of icing sugar until it browns.
Serve with your favourite Truly Irresistible preserve. Enjoy!
