Vanilla and Cinnamon Creamy Rice Pudding or Arroz Doce

As I said in my previous post, the only thing Alex hates is rice but, strangely enough he loves Rice Pudding!
Whenever I make it, he has 2/3 helpings within minutes and can never have enough of it!

My recipe for Rice Pudding is slightly different from the traditional one.
I make it the Portuguese way, and that means a lot of cinnamon.



I posted this recipe a long time ago on the blog, when I first started blogging in fact, but I think it's worth reposting simply because I do make it time and time again.

 It's so creamy and delicious that, everytime Alex says he doesn't like rice all I have to do is say that in that case I won't be making Rice Pudding anymore, and suddenly he becomes a rice lover all over again!!

Bom Apetite!!

Creamy Vanilla and Cinammon Rice Pudding

Ingredients for 4 People:

- 250 g (9 oz.) long-grain rice

- 300 g (10 oz.) sugar

- Zest of 3-4 lemons

- 1 litre (4 cups) milk

- 6 egg yolks

- A small pinch of salt

- 1 cinnamon stick + ground cinnamon

- 100 g (6 tbsp.) butter

- Vanilla


Place the rice in a saucepan and cover with lots of water, let boil for 8 minutes.

Drain in a sieve.

Return the rice to the saucepan.
Add the milk, butter, vanilla and sugar, add the lemon zest when the mixture first begins to bubble.
Let cook over low heat for 20 minutes with the cinnamon stick.

Turn off the heat.
Add the egg yolks and the salt.
Stir well while the heat of the rice cooks the egg yolks

Pour into a shallow dish and decorate with powdered cinnamon.
Serve hot or cold



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