Mums and Babies

This is an easy-peasy recipe for a baked rice pudding that will take you back to you school years, but is delicious. It is really easy and fab for dinner parties, family parties, and for making with children, because it is dead easy.

Try adding chocolate chips, which will melt for a delicious flavour. You could also put a spoon of jam in the bottom before baking for a lovely fruity surprise at the bottom. For a very decadent take on the dish, you could add a couple of sweets like Rolo’s, or a mini Mars in the bottom of the dish, and this will melt and give you a delicious creamy texture and chocolaty finish!

Ingredients:

• 110g of pudding rice or short grain rice
• 500ml evaporated milk
• 500ml whole milk
• 40g brown sugar, or muscavado sugar
• 1 nutmeg
• 25g sugar
• 2 egg yolks

Method of Preparation:

Easy. Mix the milks together.

Mix in the sugar, and rice, and pour into your ovenproof dish or dishes.

A nice touch is to beat the two egg yolks together and stir this through the mixture, it makes it extra creamy and rich

Grate the whole nutmeg over the top – this seems a lot, but the dish does need it.

Dot the butter up into little flecks and sprinkle on the top.

Cook for thirty minutes in the top of an oven at 150C. Mix everything through, and then put back in for another half an hour. Stir again. Leave in the oven for another hour, with no stirring.

This will be lovely, creamy, with a yummy skin on top! If you don’t like the skin, just stir it through and it will get rid of it.
Variations:

This is lovely served with compote fruit. Chop rhubarb roughly into segments, add a good shake of sugar to cover – this isn’t exact measurements, use however much you want. Cover with a little bit of water – a nice thing to do is cover it with strawberry juice. Cook slowly for about an hour. You could add some cinnamon, or a vanilla pod to this. Cook until stewed and thick. Spoon this on top of the rice pudding to serve, or spoon the rice pudding out of the bowls to serve runny.

You could also serve this with cake. Seems like a strange combination, but it makes a lovely alternative to using cream or custard.