FEATURE RECIPE
Cold rice pudding with rhubarb

Cold rice pudding with rhubarb

You can serve this pudding straight from the oven if you prefer. Be sure to use thin red rhubarb stalks that aren’t dried out or stringy. You’ll need to begin this recipe a day ahead.

Serves 6

Cooking Time Prep time 20 mins, cook 1 hr 20 mins (plus cooling, setting)



600 ml   milk
200 ml   pouring cream
100 gm   arborio rice
55 gm (¼ cup)   raw caster sugar
1   vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped
2   eggs
1 punnet   strawberries, thinly sliced, to serve
Rhubarb in syrup
300 gm   caster sugar
4   rhubarb stalks, thinly sliced on a mandolin


1 Preheat oven to 120C. Combine milk, cream, rice, sugar and vanilla bean and seeds in a saucepan and bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally, over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and stir occasionally until rice is cooked (15-20 minutes).
2 Meanwhile, whisk eggs until smooth. Add to rice mixture, whisking continuously until combined. Pour into a 1-litre baking dish, place in a roasting pan, add boiling water to pan to come halfway up sides of dish. Bake until pudding is just set and has a slight wobble (1-1¼ hours). Cool, refrigerate overnight.
3 Meanwhile, for rhubarb in syrup, place rhubarb in a heatproof bowl. Combine sugar and 200ml water in a saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Pour hot syrup over rhubarb and stand until cool. Serve rhubarb and strawberries with pudding.

This recipe is from the August 2010 issue of Australian Gourmet Traveller.

RECIPE Lisa Featherby PHOTOGRAPHY Ben Dearnley STYLING Lynsey Fryers-Hedrick and Lisa Featherby

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