A small iron dish filled with rice pudding with a golden, brittle top, with a silver spoon inside

Spanish rice pudding

Name: Spanish rice pudding
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 25 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 1 litre whole milk; 300ml double cream; 2 vanilla pods seeds scraped; 250g pudding rice; 130g caster sugar plus extra to top; 45g unsalted butter cold, cubed

Dani Garcia

Published: July 26, 2022 at 12:30 PM

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Serves 6 - 8

Easy

Prep: 5 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 25 mins

+ chilling

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A cross between crema catalana and a rice pudding, this comforting Spanish dessert has a satisfyingly crunchy caramelised topping. It would go down a storm at a dinner party or family meal

Gluten free

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