Brûléed Rice Pudding With Dried Cranberries

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2/3 cup Japanese sticky rice (or other short-grained rice)
• 4 1/2 cups whole milk
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1/2 cup loosely packed dark brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup dried cranberries
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla paste
• Turbinado sugar, for serving

1. Melt one tablespoon of butter in a heavy bottomed saucepan, add rice and cook over medium-low heat for a couple of minutes until all grains are coated in butter.
2. Add milk, cinnamon sticks and salt and turn heat up until milk-rice mixture begins to boil.
3. Once the mixture is boiling, turn heat down and simmer for 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally to make sure milk doesn't scald, until rice is cooked through
4. Whisk sugar and eggs together in a bowl or large measuring cup.
5. Ladle 1/4 to 1/2 cup boiling rice mixture into the eggs and sugar, stirring continuously. Whisk egg-sugar mixture into rice mixture and simmer until it thickens slightly. Keep your burner on the lowest setting at this point so that the pudding does not curdle.
6. Once pudding has thickened, remove from heat.
7. Remove cinnamon sticks and stir in vanilla and dried cranberries. Transfer to a serving dish. Allow to cool slightly, then cover with wax or parchment paper to prevent a skin from forming. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
8. Just before serving, remove parchment or wax paper and cover top of pudding with a thin sprinkling of turbinado sugar. Melt the sugar with a blow torch or place the dish under the broiler until the sugar is melted and serve.

butter, rice, milk, kosher salt, cinnamon sticks, brown sugar, eggs, cranberries, vanilla, turbinado sugar

Taken from food52.com/recipes/67445-bruleed-rice-pudding-with-dried-cranberries (may not work)