Creamy Rice Pudding

Total Time: 3 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup medium rice
• 4 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla bean, scraped
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup raisins, soaked in
• dark rum, then drained
• 1 cup heavy cream, whipped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• 2 heat butter in a 4 quart saucepan.
• 3 when frothy add rice and and vanilla beans and pod cook for a minute.
• 4 slowly add milk, pinch salt,cinnamon, cardamom, sugar, raisins and bring to under a boil.
• 5 remove pod.
• 6 transfer to a 9 inch square baking pan and set in oven.
• 7 bake uncovered for 1 1/2 hours stirring every 15 minutes.(just a note on 01/05/05 i made this recipe again left the vanilla bean in and didn`t stir till after 1 hour in the oven baked for 45 more minutes and removed from oven and removed bean at that time. came out thick and creamy good.
• 8 then bake undisturbed for 1 hour.
• 9 good warm or cool.
• 10 top with whipped cream.