Greek Rice Pudding Recipe: Authentic Like Yia Yia (2024)

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How to make Jamie Oliver's rice pudding? ›

Method. Put the rice, milk, 200ml of water, half the maple syrup or honey and the vanilla into a large pan. Give it a good stir, then place the pan on a very low heat. Cook gently for around 45 minutes, or until thick and creamy, stirring regularly.

Rizogalo, pronounced "ri-ZOH-ga-loh" is a Greek rice pudding, from rizo meaning rice and gála meaning milk. Delicately flavored with orange and cinnamon, rizogalo is luxuriously creamy, delightfully fragrant, and refreshingly light. It's a naturally gluten-free dessert (or breakfast) recipe everyone will enjoy!

In general, the shorter the grain, the higher the starch content...and it's starch that helps thicken this pudding and make it so creamy. You can use brown rice, but the pudding won't be as creamy, it will take longer to cook, and you will likely need to add more liquid.

Rice pudding is a creamy mixture of rice and milk that is cooked until it's thick and soft. It can be sweet or savory. This raisin-studded dessert rice pudding is thickened with an egg, sweetened with sugar, and enhanced with vanilla.

Preheat the oven to 150'C. Put the rice and golden raisins in an oven proof dish. Stir together the evaporated milk, sugar and normal milk and pour over the rice. Put in the middle tray of the oven and stir after half an hour, put back in the oven for another hour and then remove.

Taste Atlas recognizes Indian desserts Phirni, Kheer, and Sakkarai Pongal among top rice puddings globally.

With only a few ingredients and no eggs, the dessert tastes of clean, pure rice and dairy—without any heaviness—and is only subtly sweetened. The rice lends creaminess, of course, but a secondary starch is commonly added to help thicken it; we use cornstarch.

There are a wide variety of dishes that find their way onto the plates of Muslims at السحور and الإفطار. Rice pudding with dates is a fairly common dish.

Rice - I've tried all sorts of rice types and uncooked medium grain is by far the best for rice pudding, followed by risotto rice. Risotto rice (arborio) - needs extra liquid, add 1 cup (250ml) water into the saucepan with milk, and cook for 1 hr 20 minutes.

Why did the milk curdle in my rice pudding? ›

Boiling is a sure way to curdle milk. It's not just boiling. Heating milk too quickly, even if it never comes to a boil, can also curdle it. To prevent the dairy from curdling, heat the milk gently over medium-low heat.

It's actually been around for centuries, believe it or not, and was thought to have originated in China, which has an ancient rice culture. This has been disputed by some food historians; they argue that rice pudding likely originated in India, which has an ancient rice culture as well as an ancient sugar culture.

Others insist that it arrived in Greece with the National Revolution of 1821 along with other sweets of French origin. Others still argue that rice is rooted in the East, and in Asia Minor in particular, and came to Greece with the refugees that arrived in 1922.

In the U.S., Americans tend to use long grain white rice varieties. You don't find rice pudding too often these days. Usually relegated to nursing homes and hospitals, you'll occasionally find it on restaurant (or especially New York deli) menus.

While we've mentioned before that this dessert gets its perfectly creamy texture from the starch that is released when the grains are cooking, we do suggest a rinse for this recipe in order to wash off excess debris and added starch.