Ingredients

½ cup

uncooked rice, ANY rice!

2 and ½ cups

water

4 and ½

cups of milk (any kind of milk, I used almond milk)

¾ cup

sugar, any kind, I used coconut sugar

1 heaped tablespoon

cornflour

1 teaspoon

Organic Fairtrade Vanilla Extract

One of the easiest ways to use Steenbergs Organic Fairtrade vanilla extract is in a Turkish rice pudding or sütlaç. No need for flour or eggs in this easy recipe from @nikibakes.

Method

Preheat your oven to gas mark 4/180°C degrees. Wash the rice just once but not more than this, you don’t want to make it super clean because we want to keeps its starch.
Place your rice in a large pan. Pour water over it and bring it to a boil. Let the rice simmer over low heat until the rice is soft, this will take about 10 minutes.
Add in the 4 cups of milk and sugar. Bring it to a boil and simmer over a low heat for about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk together the remaining milk and cornflour in a small bowl. Pour this into the simmering rice mixture and stir well at the same time. Continue stirring until it thickens, for about 15 minutes. Cook for extra 2 minutes after it thickens and remove from the heat, whisk in the vanilla extract at this stage, turn the heat off.
Meanwhile, half fill an oven tray with hot water and place ovenproof cups like ramekins into it (to create a water bath). Pour the vanilla rice pudding into them and bake uncovered until they have golden top as photographed.
Remove from the oven and let them cool down completely. Either serve them at room temperature or chill at least for 4 hours before serving, though it tastes best when cold, perfect for a warm summers day!