🍚 Arroz doce (rice pudding)

Name: Arroz doce (rice pudding)
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Portugal · Brazil
Ingredients: 200 g short-grain rice; 1 litre milk; 500 ml water; 150 g sugar; 3 egg yolks; 1 cinnamon stick, a strip of lemon peel and a pinch of salt; Ground cinnamon to dust

Origin: Portugal · Brazil

248kcal

per serving · 150 g

165kcal

per 100 g

6 gProtein4 g / 100 g

4 gFat3 g / 100 g

45 gCarbs30 g / 100 g

Arroz doce is the Portuguese-language world's sweet rice: short-grain rice simmered slowly in milk with sugar until thick and creamy, enriched at the end with egg yolks and dusted with ground cinnamon. It is soft, rich and gently spiced, and is eaten warm or cold, often from a wide dish with cinnamon drawn on top in patterns.

Diets

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Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

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No pork

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Gluten-freeno wheat, barley or rye in a typical recipe

Not veganbecause of: milk, egg yolk

Contains dairybecause of: milk

Not keto30 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Eggs ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

ricemilksugaregg yolkcinnamon

Recipe

6 servings60 min

Ingredients

200 g short-grain rice
1 litre milk
500 ml water
150 g sugar
3 egg yolks
1 cinnamon stick, a strip of lemon peel and a pinch of salt
Ground cinnamon to dust

Method

Cook the rice in the water with the salt, lemon peel and cinnamon stick until the water is almost absorbed, about 10 minutes.
Add the hot milk gradually, stirring often, and simmer on low heat for 30–35 minutes until creamy.
Stir in the sugar and cook for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat and discard the peel and cinnamon stick.
Mix the egg yolks with a ladle of the hot rice, stir them back in and cook on very low heat for 2 minutes without boiling.
Pour into a dish or bowls and dust with ground cinnamon. Serve warm or chilled.

How to make it lighter

Use semi-skimmed milk instead of whole milk for a lighter pudding with the same texture.
Cut the sugar by a third — the cinnamon and lemon still carry the flavour.
Serve in small bowls of about 120–150 g; it is filling, and a little goes a long way.

History

Arroz doce is one of the oldest and most common desserts of Portugal, a fixture of festivals, weddings and Christmas tables. Portuguese settlers took it to Brazil, where arroz doce is also a much-loved everyday sweet, especially during the June festivals.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →