Name: Rice Pudding (Sutlijach)
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: Macedonian
Ingredients: Ground cinnamon, for garnish; 1 cup (200 g) short-grain white rice; ¾ cup (100 g) brown sugar; 1 strip orange peel, peeled using a vegetable peeler; ¼ teaspoon kosher salt; 1 cinnamon stick; 4 cups (1 liter) whole milk; 2 tablespoons (30 g) unsalted butter; 3 egg yolks

Preparation info

Serves
8 to 10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Macedonia

By Katerina Nitsou

Published 2021

About

This comforting dessert is almost effortless and full of flavor. Flavoring the milk with orange peel and cinnamon is the way my grandmother used to make it.

Ingredients

4 cups (1 liter) whole milk
1 cup (200

Method

In a medium saucepan over high heat, stir together the milk, rice, sugar, butter, salt, cinnamon stick, and orange peel. Bring to a boil and reduce the heat to medium. Simmer, covered, for 40 to 45 minutes, stirring often, until the rice is fully cooked. Discard the orange peel and cinnamon stick.

In a heat resistant bowl, whisk the egg yolks. Gradually ladle about 2 cups of the hot ric