Rice pudding with winter fruit compote

Name: Rice pudding with winter fruit compote
Yield: Serves 4-6
Ingredients: few cinnamon sticks, halved; Vanilla syrup, optional; 850 ml whole milk; 50 ml dark rum; handful of star anise pods; 2 Braeburn or other crisp apples; 150 ml double cream; 10 prunes; 2 pears; 20 g dark brown sugar; 120 g golden caster sugar; 180 g pudding rice; 100 g unsalted butter; 1 cinnamon stick; 2 star anise pods

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gourmet Food for a Fiver

By Jason Atherton

Published 2010

About

I HAVE BASED THIS ON MY MUM’S RICE PUDDING, WHICH HAD A WONDERFUL WARMING QUALITY. IT WAS ONE OF THE FEW DISHES I LOVED EATING AS A CHILD. AT AN EARLY AGE, FOOD WAS A CHORE RATHER THAN A PASSION FOR ME... HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED.

Ingredients

Rice Pudding:

100 g unsalted butter
180 g pudding rice
120

Dessert
Winter
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

For the rice pudding, preheat the oven to 140°C/Gas 1. Melt the butter in a large heavy-based ovenproof cooking pot over a low heat. Add the rice, sugar, milk and cream. Slowly bring to the boil, then take off the heat and stir to distribute the rice evenly over