Greek Rice Pudding (Rizogalo)

Comfort food.
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Serves:
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ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup short grain white rice (a starchy rice, like arborio)
- 3 cups whole milk
- peel of 1 lemon, removed in one long strip
- 1⁄3 cup white sugar, plus
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cornflour (cornstarch is the same thing)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
directions
- Place milk, sugar and lemon peel (just the peel - none of the pith) in a heavy saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring constantly until sugar melts. Reduce heat to low and add the rice.
- Cover the pan and cook until the rice/milk mixture has gone thick and creamy (about 30-35 minutes).
- Turn off heat. Remove lemon peel and discard.
- Whisk together egg yolks with corn flour.
- Quickly whisk egg yolks into the rice mixture, stirring well. (If you want to, at this point you can also add a 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract). Keep stirring to make sure yolks are incorporated and won't curdle.
- Spoon pudding into four serving dishes and cool. Top with a sprinkling of cinnamon.
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Delicious and pretty authentic! However, it takes about 50 minutes to cook, not 35. I had good luck with taking it off the heat and adding the egg yolks and cornstarch, so no problem with that as others had stated. But I did cook it for 50 minutes first and it had thickened up nicely. I would make this again!
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You have to cook this after you add the yolk/cornstarch combination. I'm not sure why the recipe states to turn off the heat, whisk the yolks/starch in and be done with it, but if you don't cook it (low-med, while stirring) afterward, not only will it taste like cornstarch, but it will not set properly. Otherwise, a good, basic recipe. I added more sugar as well.
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