Baked rice pudding with chestnuts
A riff on a traditional Galician milk pudding, this recipe for lemon and cinnamon-scented rice pudding incorporates an important ingredient of the region - chestnuts.
- Cooking:
- Serves: 4 persons
Ingredients
- unsalted butterfor greasing
- 90g ofpudding rice
- 45g of caster sugar
- 650ml of whole milk
- 250ml of single cream
- ½lemon, zested
- 180g ofcooked chestnuts, roughly chopped
- 1vanilla pod, split
- cinnamonfor dusting
- cherry jam to taste
Instructions
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 140°C/gas mark 1Step 2
Grease a 1 litre ovenproof dish with the butterStep 3
Combine the rice, sugar, milk, cream, lemon zest and chestnuts into a mixing bowl and stir to combineStep 4
Scrape out the seeds from the vanilla pod and add to the mix, stirring well to incorporate themStep 5
Pour into the buttered dish and top with a sprinkling of ground cinnamonStep 6
Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes, or until the top has a brown skin. Serve with a dollop of cherry jam