Portuguese Rice Pudding
Portuguese Rice Pudding

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, portuguese rice pudding. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Portuguese Rice Pudding, Arroz Doce, is a traditional Portuguese dessert recipe made with cooked rice, sugar, milk, eggs, cinnamon, and lemon peel. This recipe for Portuguese Rice Pudding is a popular dish that my husband Jack has served many, many times over the years. It's a sweet and creamy, vanilla-infused rice pudding and a wonderfully.

Portuguese Rice Pudding is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Portuguese Rice Pudding is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook portuguese rice pudding using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

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Instructions 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.

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. Creamy Portuguese rice pudding isn't your average rice pudding. When most people think of rice pudding, they think of that dessert that is found in the glass refrigerated cabinets in diners―a cold. 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 without them.

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