The happy hippy

Name: The happy hippy
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: 1½ tbsp butter; 2 handfuls of nuts or crisp rice cereal (optional); a pinch of salt; 160 ml/5½ fl oz/scant ¾ cup whole milk; 300 g/10½ oz/heaped 1½ cups short-grain brown rice, soaked for 2 hours, rinsed and drained; a pinch of freshly grated nutmeg; 3 tbsp muscovado/soft brown sugar, or to taste

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

Pimp My Rice

By Nisha Katona

Published 2017

About

I always imagine true hippies and good Presbyterians have a bowl of leftover, morally airtight, always-a-bridesmaid, brown rice in the refrigerator. For such as these, the morning breaks forth reward in the form of golden butter and dark sugar, which comes from puritanical surplus – a filthily sweet, rib-sticking bowl of breakfast joy.

Ingredients

300 g/10½ oz/heaped 1½ cups short-grain brown rice, soaked for 2 hours, rinsed and drained

Breakfast
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

To cook the rice, put the rice and salt in a heavy-based saucepan and add 600 ml/21 fl oz/generous 2½ cups wate