Creamy Rice Pudding with the Quickest Strawberry Jam
- 2 pounds strawberries, hulled, washed and drained
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 5 cups organic whole milk
- 7 ounces medium-grain rice
- 2 tablespoons vanilla sugar
- 2 ounces store-bought meringues, crumbled
- Optional: a few wild strawberries, to serve
- Rice pudding is loved by everyone, and it's one of my favorite desserts.
- Proper feel-good food, it's gorgeous served on its own or with whatever fruit you've got knocking around.
- For me, though, the best way of eating it, especially in the summer, is really cold with hot strawberry jam.
- As an alternative, you can broil or roast peaches and plums to serve with it.
- Beautiful!
- I used to make jam with my mum when I was a kid.
- For a lovely fresh strawberry taste, I now use less sugar and I don't cook it for quite as long as my mum used to.
- Any leftover jam will keep in the fridge for a couple of weeks if you store it in a jar rinsed with boiling water, but you'll probably find it gets eaten way before that!
- It's great served as a sauce alongside a tart, drizzled over ice cream or simply spread on a piece of toast or fresh bread.
- Place the strawberries in a wide, stainless steel pan and sprinkle the sugar over the top.
- Scrunch the strawberries up with your hands, really pushing them between your fingers to pulp them up - the mixture will start to look like jam at this point.
- You want all the sugar to dissolve in the strawberry juice before you put the pan on the heat and bring it to the boil.
- Simmer for 20 to 30 minutes on a medium heat, and every 5 minutes or so come back to your jam to skim off the foam.
- Don't worry if it's still a bit liquid - it needs to be so you can swirl it into your rice pudding.
- Remove the pan from the heat and put aside.
- There you have it - beautiful, quintessential strawberry jam!
- Meanwhile, place the milk, rice and vanilla sugar in a deep saucepan.
- Bring to a medium simmer and put on the lid.
- Cook for half an hour, stirring occasionally, until the rice pudding is thick, creamy, oozy and moist.
- If it ends up being a bit too thick, you can thin it down by adding a little more milk.
- To serve, divide the rice pudding between your bowls.
- Spoon over a big dollop of your beautiful strawberry jam, then slowly swirl it in so it marbles and ripples through the rice pudding.
- Sprinkle over the meringue pieces and scatter with a few wild strawberries, if you like.
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