Sweet Rice (Arroz Doce)


Sweet rice is a traditional desert for the Portuguese for special occasions, served with a sprinkle of cinnamon.
I make sweet rice at any time of the year, I usually pour it into individual dishes sprinkle with Cinnamon and cover it with a plastic film and keep it refrigerated, during the week we eat it for snacks,
breakfast or desert with a dollop of whipped cream its fabulous,

Here's how I make mine.


2 cups of regular white rice
4 cups of water
1 tsp sea salt
4 cups of whole milk
1 cup of sugar or to taste
1 lemon rind
2-3 egg yokes
Cinnamon

      If this is the first time you ever made sweet rice. You may want to scale the recipe down to half.                              

                                                   

                                                 

Pour in a medium size pan the first three ingredients and cook on low flame for 15 minutes, after the rice is cooked add the milk and sugar and lemon rind and cook rice for an additional 10 minutes, here watch it carefully as the rice can scorch easy, in mean time mix the yokes with 1/2 cup of cold milk. Add some of the hot rice to the yolk mixture so that they don't curdle, add the yolk mixture slowly to the hot rice and cook for a couple minutes or till its thicker.  Adjust for sugar and thickness, and pour it into the individual dishes let it cool sprinkle with Cinnamon and refrigerate...