Mexican Rice Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 inches cinnamon sticks
• lime zest (green only, 2 inch wide strip by 3 inches long-so it's quite a chunk)
• 1 cup rice
• 1 quart milk
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 large egg yolks
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup golden raisin
• 1 teaspoon unsalted butter, chopped
• ground cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 bring 2 cups water to a boil, add cinnamon stick and lime zest, cover and simmer for 5 min.
• 2 add the rice and return to a boil, stir once, cover and cook for 20 min.
• 3 stir in the milk, sugar and salt and simmer over medium low heat, stirring frequently until the liquid shows the first signs of thickening, around 20 min or so.
• 4 take from the heat and remove the cinnamon and zest.
• 5 beat the egg yolks until runny, stir in the vanilla and a few t. of the hot rice mix (temper it), then add to pot. stir well.
• 6 mix in half the raisins, then spoon the rice pudding into a 8 inch square baking dish.
• 7 preheat the broiler and dot the top of the pudding with the butter.
• 8 broil 3-4 min, sprinkle with cinnamon and remaining raisins and serve warm.