Portuguese Rice Pudding
Portuguese Rice Pudding

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, portuguese rice pudding. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Portuguese Rice Pudding is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Portuguese Rice Pudding is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have portuguese rice pudding using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Portuguese Rice Pudding:
  1. Make ready 1 L 3% (Homogenized) milk
  2. Get 1 L Water
  3. Prepare 1/4 lb Butter (unsalted preferably)
  4. Prepare 2 tsp Salt
  5. Make ready Sliced zest of small lemon (count pieces of zest to ensure that all are removed later)
  6. Prepare 1 1/4 cup Arborio or Carolina Rice, soaked in water
  7. Get 1 cup + 3 TBS white sugar
  8. Take 6 Egg Yolks
  9. Prepare Cinnamon (for garnish)

There's a hint of orange in this rice pudding, as well as warm cinnamon sprinkled on top. When most people think of rice pudding, they think of that dessert that is found in the glass refrigerated cabinets in diners―a cold, white pudding in a stemmed glass with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry on top. Instructions: Bring water and milk to a boil with the lemon rind and salt on medium high. This Portuguese rice pudding, made by cooking rice with whole milk infused with citrus and cinnamon and making it like custard with the addition of egg yolks, is creamy and comforting.

Steps to make Portuguese Rice Pudding:
  1. Cover with water and soak the rice in a small bowl (not the same water as below) and set aside.
  2. Combine milk, water, butter, salt and lemon in a large pot. Be sure to count pieces of zest to ensure that all are removed later.
  3. Bring contents of pot just to a boil using medium heat.
  4. When milk boils drain the rice from step one and add it to milk.
  5. LISTEN VERY CAREFULY - IMPORTANT STEP!!! Stir a couple of times to mix then leave on LOWEST heat WITHOUT STIRRING until rice grains come to the top of liquid, it will look almost solid. This takes at least 1 hour and maybe longer depending on the kind of rice used. Test to see that the rice is soft. If not, leave a bit longer.
  6. Remove pieces of lemon zest.
  7. Add Sugar and stir pot for 2 to 3 minutes to dissolve
  8. Lightly beat and add 6 egg yolks
  9. At this point start stirring constantly until mixture thickens and looks creamy, about 5 minutes.
  10. Pour into a large heatproof dish or several smaller dishes, sprinkle with cinnamon and let cool.

Finished with pistachios, the pudding is wonderful for dessert or breakfast, served hot or straight from the fridge. Portuguese rice pudding is cooked entirely on top of the stove in a risotto like manner. It traditionally is thickened and enriched further with egg yolks, but has a voluptuous texture even. In a large saucepan over high heat, combine sugar and milk. When bubbles form at the edges, stir in rice and reduce heat to medium low.

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