South African Baked Rice Pudding

Posted for the Zaar Tour 2006. Qualifies because of milk content. Nice and comforting: keep this recipe for winter as well!

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

• 2  cups milk
• 1  cup cooked rice
• 2  eggs, separated
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1  tablespoon lemon rind, finely grated

Directions

1. Heat oven to 325°F.
2. Heat milk and add the cooked rice.
3. Whisk egg yolks in a roomy bowl with the sugar and salt, then add milk mixture slowly.
4. With clean beaters, beat egg whites until stiff and then fold into rice/egg yolk/milk mixture.
5. Add the vanilla and lemon rind, and stir through.
6. Ladle mixture into a greased oven dish and bake about 40 - 45 minutes or until set.
7. Serve with any commercial syrup or syrup from bottled fruits. (The Zaar recipe robot would not allow me to state "Syrup to serve" in the ingredient list!).