Table for TwoRisalamande
The Danish Christmas rice pudding folded with whipped cream, vanilla and chopped almonds, served cold with hot cherry sauce.
Photo: Rasmus Gundorff Sæderup / Unsplash
⏱ 60 min📶 Medium👫 Serves 2🥬 Vegetarian☪ Muslim-friendly
Ingredients (for 2)
- Short-grain rice, 100 g
- Milk, 600 ml
- Vanilla pod, 1, or 1 tsp extract
- Sugar, 2 tbsp
- Almonds, 50 g, blanched and chopped
- Heavy cream, 200 ml
- Whole almond, just one, for the game
- Cherry sauce, to serve
Steps
- Simmer the rice in 150 ml water for 2 minutes, then add the milk and vanilla.
- Cook on very low heat, stirring often, for 35–40 minutes until thick; cool completely.
- Stir in the sugar and chopped almonds.
- Whip the cream to soft peaks and fold it in; hide one whole almond in the bowl.
- Serve cold with warm cherry sauce — whoever finds the whole almond wins a prize.
Cook it together: One of you stirs the rice, the other whips the cream — and one of you hides the almond.
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