Italian Rice-Meal Pudding with almonds

Name: Italian Rice-Meal Pudding with almonds
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: italian
Ingredients: 90 g finely ground rice; 500 ml halal-certified milk; 2 piece eggs; 65 g sugar; 20 g halal-certified butter; 8 g lemon zest; 25 g sweet almonds

Italian Rice-Meal Pudding with almonds. Book: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24407 Quantities and instructions were newly written for home cooking; this is not a historical transcription. Not…

90 g finely ground rice
500 ml halal-certified milk
2 piece eggs
65 g sugar
20 g halal-certified butter
8 g lemon zest
25 g sweet almonds

Chop the almonds finely. Heat oven to 170 °C and grease four 200 ml ramekins with 5 g of the measured butter.
Simmer ground rice in milk for 12–15 minutes, stirring until smooth and tender; mix in remaining butter. Allow it to cool to lukewarm before adding eggs.
Whisk eggs with sugar, fold into the base along with remaining ingredients and the variation ingredient. Divide among the ramekins.
Place in a roasting dish; pour hot water halfway up the ramekins. Bake 30–40 minutes until set and the centre reaches 71 °C. Cool and refrigerate within 2 hours at 4 °C; serve four portions.
Photo: Wiki leylek — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baked_Rice_Pudding_11.06.2025.jpg Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Resized and converted to JPEG; no crop. Baked rice pudding illustration; this formula uses ground rice and individual ramekins.

Original modern halal adaptation and ingredient variation inspired by Maria Gentile, The Italian Cook Book, dish family: Italian Rice-Meal Pudding.