Sütlaç (Rice Pudding)
Sütlaç with Sour Cherries
One of 4 versions of Sütlaç (Rice Pudding). The table below shows how their ingredients differ.
Ingredients
- 2.4 litre milk
- 600 gram long-grain rice
- 100 gram sugar syrup
- 30 gram butter
- 2 tablespoon orange peel · grated
- 20 gram leaf gelatine
- 1 kilogram tinned sweet cherries
- 2 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 piece egg white
- 40 gram cornflour
- 30 millilitre kirsch · cherry liqueur
- 2 tablespoon sugar
How to make it
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Boil the milk with the orange peel, sugar syrup and butter.
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Add the rice and leave it to cook over a medium heat.
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Soak the gelatine in cold water, squeeze it out and stir it into the rice.
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Drain the cherries; keep the juice.
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Add the cherries to the rice together with the vanilla extract.
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Leave the rice to cool until it begins to set.
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Fold in the whisked egg white.
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Pour into moulds and leave to set.
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Thicken the cherry juice you kept with cornflour.
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Add the kirsch and, if needed, sugar.
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Serve with the pudding.
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Sütlaç (Rice Pudding) versions
They are all the same dish; the table below lists only the ingredients that set them apart. Ingredients common to every version (flour, salt, oil) are left out — they make no difference.
| Ingredient | On the hob | Baked | Portuguese | With sour cherries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rice | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| vanilla | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| cornflour | — | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| orange | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| water | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| butter | — | — | — | ✓ |
| cinnamon | — | — | ✓ | — |
| cornflour | — | — | — | ✓ |
| egg | — | — | — | ✓ |
| gelatine | — | — | — | ✓ |
| hazelnuts | — | — | ✓ | — |
| kirsch | — | — | — | ✓ |
| long-grain rice | — | — | — | ✓ |
| pistachios | — | — | ✓ | — |
| rice flour | ✓ | — | — | — |
| sour cherries | — | — | — | ✓ |
On the hob
The classic rice pudding: the rice is boiled separately, added to the milk and thickened with rice flour.
Open this versionBaked
Rice pudding bound with cornflour and baked in bowls; taken out just as the tops are about to catch.
Open this versionPortuguese
Rice pudding enriched with orange peel, flaked hazelnuts and pistachios; finished with cinnamon.
Open this version