Spanish Rice Pudding

Name: Spanish Rice Pudding
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 220 g (7¾ oz/1 cup) arborio rice; 1 large strip orange zest, pith removed; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 145 g (5 oz/⅔ cup) caster (superfine) sugar; julienned strips of orange zest, to garnish; 1.25 litres (5 cups) milk

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cook's Book of Everything

By Lulu Grimes

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

1.25 litres (5 cups) milk
220 g (7¾

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Put the milk, rice, strip of orange zest, cinnamon stick, vanilla, sugar and a pinch of salt in a large heavy-based saucepan. Stir over high heat until the sugar has dissolved, then bring just to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, stirring regularly, for 50 minutes, or until the rice is tender but not mushy. Stirring not only helps stop the rice from sti