Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a simple dish, portuguese rice pudding. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Portuguese Rice Pudding is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Portuguese Rice Pudding is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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. Take 1 L 3% (Homogenized) milk
2. Get 1 L Water
3. Get 1/4 lb Butter (unsalted preferably)
4. Make ready 2 tsp Salt
5. Prepare Sliced zest of small lemon (count pieces of zest to ensure that all are removed later)
6. Make ready 1 1/4 cup Arborio or Carolina Rice, soaked in water
7. Prepare 1 cup + 3 TBS white sugar
8. Make ready 6 Egg Yolks
9. Make ready Cinnamon (for garnish)

As you can see in my photo I served it to company with strawberry and kiwi slices garnished with mint. I am so excited to finally share this recipe. May not be for everyone and I understand 😊 but for those who will like to try please ask me. Creamy Portuguese rice pudding isn't your average rice pudding.

Steps 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.

When most people think of rice pudding, they think of that dessert that is found in the glass refrigerated cabinets in diners―a cold. 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. Experiments in Portuguese cooking, with recipes from books and from Portuguese people, to create delicious food. 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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