Old Fashioned Rice Pudding with Boozy Cherries

• Serves: 4
• Difficulty: easy
• Prep time:
• Cooking time: 2hrs

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Ingredients

2 cups             milk

2 cups             cream

1 cup               sugar

3/4 cup            Spekko Saman White Rice

Generous pinch of salt

1/2 tsp             vanilla powder

2 – 3 tbsp         butter

To serve

Double cream yoghurt

Boozy apricots or cherries

Fresh basil

Honeycomb chunks

Boozy cherries or apricots

200 g               dried apricots or 1 ½ cups fresh, pipped fresh cherries

½ cup              sugar

½ cup              boiling water

½ tsp               cinnamon

½ cup              rum

Method

1. First make the boozy cherries or apricots: In a glass bowl, cover the fruit with the sugar, boiling water, cinnamon and rum. Cover and stand overnight.
2. Preheat the oven to 160 °C and butter and oven to table dish.
3. Mix the milk, cream, sugar, Spekko rice, salt and vanilla. Pour into the dish. Dot with the butter and bake for 2 hours.
4. Serve topped with the boozy fruit, honeycomb, basil and yoghurt.