Ramin Ganeshram

Sweet Rice

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Sweet Hands: Island Cooking from Trinidad and Tobago
Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

  • About

The use of coconut milk and mixed essence for rice pudding, or “sweet rice,” is what makes this a distinctively West Indian dish. The Angostura bitters make it totally Trini.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup long-grain rice
  • 1½ cups coconut milk
  • ½ cup <

Method

  1. Rinse the rice in a fine-mesh sieve or colander until the water runs clear. Bring 1½ cups of water to a boil and add the rice. Simmer for 15 minutes, skimming any foam from the top of the rice, as necessary.
  2. Drain the rice and return to the saucepan. Add the coconut milk, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the vanilla, mixed essence, bitter