ARROZ DOCE

Arroz doce (sweet rice) is a famous Portuguese dessert.

makes 4 servings,

Ingredients :

- 75 cl milk

- 25 cl water

- 50 gr sugar

- 125 gr rice (I used rice for risotto)

- 25 gr butter

- 1 cinnamon stick

- 1 large strip lemon peel

- pinch of salt

Pour the milk in a saucepan and heat it up.

Boil the water with the cinnamon stick and the lemon peel for 5 minutes in another saucepan (covered to prevent a too fast evaporation).

Then add the rice and the butter, cook (uncovered) until the water is completely absorbed.

let boil 5 min the water with the lemon peel and the cinnamon, then add the rice and butter

Now add the sugar and a ladle of milk over the rice and allow it to completely absorb the milk (as we do for cooking a risotto). Then add one more ladle of milk and so on until the rice is done (it might take a while, about 30 minutes). The rice has to be creamy and quite moist (it will absorb the liquid when cooling down).

when the rice has absorbed the water, add the sugar and a first ladle of hot milk, and so on...

Allow to rest 10~15 minutes, meanwhile prepare the custard sauce.

Crème Anglaise (custard sauce) :

- 12 cl milk

- 12 cl cream

- 3 egg-yolks

- 25 gr sugar

- 1/2 vanilla sugar packet

Heat up the cream and milk in a saucepan. Whip the sugars with the yolks in a large bowl until it lightens the color. Pour the hot cream over the previous mixture. Mix well.

whip the yolks with the sugars, then pour in the hot milk/cream mixture...

Pour back in the saucepan and cook over gentle heat until it reaches 83°~85°C (181°~185°F) or until it thickens a bit (it lightly coats the wooden spoon).