Recipe: Appetizing Portuguese Rice Pudding

Portuguese Rice Pudding. Portuguese Rice Pudding Arroz doce If you love rice pudding you have to try the Portuguese version, Arroz Doce. It is a deliciously creamy dessert made with cooked rice, lemon, milk, sugar, and eggs. The milk and eggs give the rice pudding a rich, custard flavor and the lemon rind that is cooked with the milk adds a light lemon-y flavor to.

There's a hint of orange in this rice pudding, as well as warm cinnamon sprinkled on top. 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. You can have Portuguese Rice Pudding using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Portuguese Rice Pudding

1. You need 1 L of 3% (Homogenized) milk.
2. Prepare 1 L of Water.
3. You need 1/4 lb of Butter (unsalted preferably).
4. You need 2 tsp of Salt.
5. Prepare of Sliced zest of small lemon (count pieces of zest to ensure that all are removed later).
6. Prepare 1 1/4 cup of Arborio or Carolina Rice, soaked in water.
7. It's 1 cup of + 3 TBS white sugar.
8. You need 6 of Egg Yolks.
9. It's of Cinnamon (for garnish).

Instructions: Bring water and milk to a boil with the lemon rind and salt on medium high. But the Portuguese version is different and, in fact, if you translate it into English it actually means "sweet rice." 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. Portuguese rice pudding, or Arroz Doce, is one of the most popular and traditional desserts in.

Portuguese Rice Pudding step by step

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..

It is a unique dish with simple ingredients which are combined to create a deliciously sweet and creamy egg based rice pudding. It is a thick, custard rice pudding that is made perfect with a dusting of cinnamon. 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. HOW TO PREPARE RICE PUDDING: In a saucepan, pour the water, lemon peel, cinnamon stick, a pinch of salt and bring to a boil over high heat.