Name: Rice pudding with raisins (Riz au lait avec raisins)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: 500 ml (18 fl oz) milk; 200 g (7 oz) raisins, soaked in water, drained; 150 g (5½ oz) blanched almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped, to decorate; 2 tsp orange zest, finely grated; 1 tbsp orange-blossom water; 2–3 tbsp granulated sugar, or to taste; salt, to taste; 100 g (3½ oz) short-grain rice, rinsed

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The North African Kitchen

By Fiona Dunlop

Published 2008

About

This pudding can be sickly-sweet, but Latifa avoids this by including orange zest and fragrant orange-blossom water. It makes great comfort food after a light meal.

Ingredients

100 g (3½ oz) short-grain rice, rinsed
500 ml (18

Method

Put the rice in a saucepan and cover generously with water. Cook until the water has been absorbed. Add the milk, raisins, orange zest, salt and sugar, and bring to the boil, stirring continuously. Add the orange-blossom water.
Cook for about 20 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent the rice from sticking to the bottom of the saucepan, until the milk is absor