Greek rice pudding

Name: Greek rice pudding
Yield: Feeds four
Ingredients: ½ tsp vanilla extract; 2 tbsp sugar; 120 g (4¼ oz) short grain or arborio rice; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 litre (1¾ pints) milk; 1 tsp cornflour; 1 tsp clear rosewater syrup

Preparation info

Feeds
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

Greek rizogalo is much loved for its creamy, melting white sweetness. It is often thickened with egg yolks at the end of cooking, but I prefer to keep it on the runny side of firm, thickened only with a little cornflour. Serve it in shallow bowls so you get a maximum amount of area to sprinkle with cinnamon - the best part.

Ingredients

1 litre (1¾ pints) milk
120 g (4¼

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Place milk and rice in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and heat gently, stirring occasionally, while you bring the milk to a simmer. Lower the heat just before the milk comes to the boil and cook gently, uncovered, for 30 to 40 minutes, stirring occasionally, until each grain of rice is tender but still shapely. Add sugar, vanilla and rosewater syrup, and stir well until sugar dissolves.

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