Name: Classic Rice Pudding
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: butter for he dish; 130 g pudding rice; 70 g caster sugar; 2 tsp vanilla bean paste or 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out; 800 ml whole milk; 170 ml double cream; grating of nutmeg; fruit jam of your choice (strawberry, or apricot work well)

Yields6 Servings

Prep Time5 minsCook Time1 hr 30 minsTotal Time1 hr 35 mins

butter for he dish

130 g pudding rice

70 g caster sugar

2 tsp vanilla bean paste or 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out

800 ml whole milk

170 ml double cream

grating of nutmeg

fruit jam of your choice (strawberry, or apricot work well)

Heat the oven to 160℃/140℃ fan/gas 4 and butter a 1.5 litre baking dish.
Put the pudding rice, sugar,vanilla, milk and cream in a bowl and stir to combine. Pour the mixture into the prepared dish and grate over a generous layer of nutmeg.
Bake for 1h30 minutes until a brown skin has formed on top and the rice is cooked and tender.

Leave to cool slightly, then scoop the warm pudding into bowls and serve with a dollop of jam on top.

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