Juniper & lemon curd rice pudding

Name: Juniper & lemon curd rice pudding
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: 1 tbsp soft thyme leaves, pulled off the stalks; 6–7 juniper berries, lightly crushed; 300 ml/10½fl oz/1¼ cups double/heavy cream; grated zest of ½ lemon; a few amaretto biscuits; 50 g/1¾ oz/¼ cup caster/granulated sugar; 500 ml/17 fl oz/generous 2 cups whole milk; 1½ tbsp good-quality lemon curd; 115 g/4 oz/scant ⅔ cup pudding rice, rinsed and drained; 2 tbsp butter

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 40

Appears in

Pimp My Rice

By Nisha Katona

Published 2017

About

This is such a simple dish, you can even construct it wearing an anorak before you head out for a long drizzly walk and it will beckon you home like a herbal, lemony, come-hither light on your doorstep.

Ingredients

2 tbsp butter
115 g/4 oz/scant ⅔

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas 2 and grease a large ovenproof dish with half the butter.

Mix the rice, lemon curd, milk, sugar, cream, thyme leaves, juniper berries and lemon zest together and pour it into the prepared dish. Dot the mixture with the remaining butter and