Portuguese Rice Pudding. Portuguese Rice Pudding, Arroz Doce, is a traditional Portuguese dessert recipe made with cooked rice, sugar, milk, eggs, cinnamon, and lemon peel. This recipe for Portuguese Rice Pudding is a popular dish that my husband Jack has served many, many times over the years. In a large saucepan over high heat combine sugar and milk.

This Portuguese rice pudding, made by cooking rice with whole milk infused with citrus and cinnamon and making it like custard with the addition of egg yolks, is creamy and comforting. Experiments in Portuguese cooking, with recipes from books and from Portuguese people, to create delicious food. The Portuguese Rice Pudding recipe out of our category Spices! You can have Portuguese Rice Pudding using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Portuguese Rice Pudding

1. Prepare 1 L of 3% (Homogenized) milk.
2. Prepare 1 L of Water.
3. You need 1/4 lb of Butter (unsalted preferably).
4. Prepare 2 tsp of Salt.
5. It's of Sliced zest of small lemon (count pieces of zest to ensure that all are removed later).
6. It's 1 1/4 cup of Arborio or Carolina Rice, soaked in water.
7. It's 1 cup of + 3 TBS white sugar.
8. It's 6 of Egg Yolks.
9. You need of Cinnamon (for garnish).

Portuguese rice pudding is cooked entirely on top of the stove in a risotto like manner. It traditionally is thickened and enriched further with egg yolks, but has a voluptuous texture even without them. Creamy Portuguese rice pudding isn't your average rice pudding. When most people think of rice pudding, they think of that dessert that is found in the glass refrigerated cabinets in diners―a cold.

Portuguese Rice Pudding step by step

1. Cover with water and soak the rice in a small bowl (not the same water as below) and set aside..
2. Combine milk, water, butter, salt and lemon in a large pot. Be sure to count pieces of zest to ensure that all are removed later..
3. Bring contents of pot just to a boil using medium heat..
4. When milk boils drain the rice from step one and add it to milk..
5. LISTEN VERY CAREFULY - IMPORTANT STEP!!! Stir a couple of times to mix then leave on LOWEST heat WITHOUT STIRRING until rice grains come to the top of liquid, it will look almost solid. This takes at least 1 hour and maybe longer depending on the kind of rice used. Test to see that the rice is soft. If not, leave a bit longer..
6. Remove pieces of lemon zest..
7. Add Sugar and stir pot for 2 to 3 minutes to dissolve.
8. Lightly beat and add 6 egg yolks.
9. At this point start stirring constantly until mixture thickens and looks creamy, about 5 minutes..
10. Pour into a large heatproof dish or several smaller dishes, sprinkle with cinnamon and let cool..

My mum would always make this delicious, creamy rice pudding and sprinkle cinnamon on top before serving. Arroz Doce is a Portuguese rice pudding that is thick, creamy, sweet and served semi-set with a generous sprinkling of cinnamon. Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and other ingredients such as cinnamon and raisins. Variants are used for either desserts or dinners. Arroz Doce - Sweet Rice Pudding, has always been my family's favorite served on Christmas Eve.