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Spiced winter rice pudding

Slow-simmered pudding rice with cinnamon, cardamom and brown butter.

TOTAL TIME

50 min

SERVES

6

DIFFICULTY

Easy

What you’ll need

  • 150 g pudding rice
  • 1 litre whole milk
  • 200 ml double cream
  • 60 g light brown sugar
  • 1 cinnamon stick and 4 cardamom pods
  • 40 g butter, browned
  • Pinch of sea salt

Method

  1. Rinse the rice and combine with milk, cream and spices.
  2. Simmer very gently for 40 minutes, stirring often.
  3. Stir in the sugar and salt; cook 5 minutes more.
  4. Fish out the whole spices.
  5. Spoon into warm bowls and drizzle with brown butter.

Cook’s tip

Never let it boil hard — a bare tremble keeps the grains whole and silky.

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Anna McAllister

Food Coach at Thistle & Thyme Table. Every recipe is cooked twice in our kitchen before it earns a place here.

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