Baked Rice Pudding Wlth Creme Fraiche And Baked Pears Recipe

• 50 gm short grain rice
• 450 ml full cream lowfat milk
• 4 Tbsp. creme fra"che
• 3 Tbsp. caster sugar
• 1 x thick slice of butter about 30g
• 1 x few drops of good quality vanilla extract

1. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees C/300 degrees F/gas mark 2.
2. Put the rice in a small pan with the lowfat milk.
3. Bring almost to the boil then turn down and simmer for 10 min until the rice is almost tender.
4. Put the creme fra"che sugar and butter in a shallow baking dish add in a few drops of vanilla extract then tip in the warm lowfat milk and rice.
5. Stir then bake for 40 min.
6. The pudding should be creamy and slightly liquid.
7. Serve with the pears.
8. The best vanilla extract I have come across is from Culpeper the herbalist.
9. They have four varieties.
10. My favourite is the one from Tahiti.
11. Dont even think of using anything labelled vanilla essence.
12. Serves 2

rice, milk, creme frache, caster sugar, butter, vanilla extract

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/baked-rice-pudding-wlth-creme-fraiche-and-baked-pears-75502 (may not work)