Name: White chocolate and banana baked rice puddings
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 90 min
Total time: 105 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1.2 litres milk; 1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped; 100 gm short grain rice; 50 gm caster sugar; For greasing: butter; 3 bananas, coarsely chopped; 80 gm white chocolate, coarsely chopped; For dusting: freshly grated nutmeg

White chocolate and banana baked rice puddings

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for white chocolate and banana baked rice puddings.

Serves 6

Prep

15M

Cook

1H 30M

Total

1H 45M

White chocolate and bananas up the ante in this dessert, giving the puddings a beguiling richness that’s perfect for winter.

Ingredients

1.2 litres milk

1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped

100 gm short grain rice

50 gm caster sugar

For greasing: butter

3 bananas, coarsely chopped

80 gm white chocolate, coarsely chopped

For dusting: freshly grated nutmeg

Method

Main

1.Preheat oven to 180C. Bring milk, vanilla bean and vanilla seeds to the boil in a saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat, add rice and sugar, stir to combine, remove vanilla bean (discard) and set aside.

2.Divide banana and chocolate among 6 buttered 500ml baking dishes, pour over milk mixture, dust with nutmeg and bake until liquid is absorbed, rice is tender and a golden skin forms (1-1½ hours). Serve hot.

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