Arroz con Leche

Name: Arroz con Leche (Cuban Rice Pudding)
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: Cuba
Ingredients: ⅛ teaspoon salt; ¾ cup medium-grain rice (such as Valencia or Arborio); Ground cinnamon; 1½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract; 1 cinnamon stick, preferably Mexican canela; ½ cup raisins, plumped in 2 tablespoons each hot water and rum, then drained; or 1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, well drained (optional); ½ cup sugar; 4½ cups whole milk; 1 strip orange zest 1 strip lime zest

Cuban Rice Pudding

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Eating Cuban

By Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs

Published 2006

About

Sometimes the simplest things are best. I have tasted and tested several different versions of Cuban rice pudding. Some recipes are quite complex and include cream, milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk, and long periods of constant stirring and fussing. The best technique for making rice pudding I have found is the straightforward one suggested by chef and award-winning cookbook author Josefa “Jo” Gonzales-Hastings in her cookbook La Habana Café. Gon