Creamy rice pudding with caramelised apples and cinnamon
Rice cooked briefly in water first, then slowly in milk until it releases its starch and turns creamy without any cream. On top, apples fried in butter with sugar and cinnamon. A warm dessert or a breakfast for a cold morning, in 45 minutes, mostly waiting.
Your own work in that: 10 min.
- Rice in water 10 min
- Rice in milk 25 min
- Apples 10 min
Step by step
0 / 5 doneRice in water
Rinse the rice in a sieve. In a heavy-based pot cover it with the water, add a pinch of salt, bring to the boil and simmer covered over low heat 10 minutes, until the water is absorbed. This way the rice spends less time in the milk, so the milk has less chance to catch and scorch.
Ingredients: 200 g short-grain rice · 250 ml water · 750 ml whole milk · 2 tbsp sugar · 1 tbsp vanilla sugar · 1 pinch salt · 20 g butter
Water absorbed, rice half tenderAdd the milk
Pour in the milk, add the sugar and vanilla sugar, stir. Bring to the edge of the boil and turn the heat to the minimum.
Milk over the rice, low heatCook slowly, stir
Cook uncovered 25 minutes, stirring across the bottom every 3–4 minutes. The rice absorbs the milk, releases its starch and the whole turns thick and creamy. Done when the grains are tender and the pudding runs off the spoon like thick porridge. Off the heat, stir in the butter.
TipLooks too thin? It thickens on the plate. Too thick is the commoner mistake; add milk.
Creamy, tender grains, runs off the spoonFry the apples
Peel the apples and cut into eighths. Melt the butter with the sugar in a pan, add the apples and fry over medium heat 5 minutes, until soft and golden. Sprinkle with cinnamon and shake the pan.
Ingredients: 2 pcs apples · 20 g butter · 2 tbsp sugar · 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Apples golden in butter and sugar, cinnamon lastServe warm
Rice into bowls, apples on top, the pan juices over them. Good cold the next day too, with a spoon of jam. Reheat with a splash of milk.
Warm rice, caramel apples, cinnamon
Before you start
Which rice?
Short-grain: arborio, carnaroli, risotto rice or plain pudding rice. Long-grain releases less starch and parboiled hardly any, so they make a thinner, less creamy pudding.
With raisins or pear
A handful of raisins into the milk for the last 10 minutes. Pear instead of apple fries the same way, with cardamom instead of cinnamon.
Baked version
Tip the finished rice with the apples into an ovenproof dish, sprinkle with sugar and bake 15 minutes at 200 °C. A crisp skin forms on top.
