Baked Rice Pudding

Total Time: 2 hrs 35 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 cups whole milk
• 1/3 cup arborio rice
• 8 teaspoons sugar
• whole nutmeg
• 4 tablespoons heavy cream
• cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees f with rack in center of oven.
• 2 butter 4 (6 oz) ramekins.
• 3 add 1/2 cup milk, 4 tsp rice, 2 tsp sugar, and a pinch of salt to each ramekin.
• 4 finely grate a little nutmeg over each, then stir to combine.
• 5 put ramekins in a shallow baking pan and bake until most of milk is absorbed and tops are golden-browned, about 1 hour (a skin will form).
• 6 cool puddings in ramekins on a rack, about 1 hour.
• 7 discard skin from top of puddings, then stir 1 tbsp cream into each.
• 8 puddings can be served at room temperature or chilled.
• 9 if desired, chill puddings, covered, at least 30 minutes.
• 10 **note: rice pudding can be chilled up to 3 days before serving.