One of the desserts my mom used to make when I wasn’t feeling well was sweet rice with milk and cinnamon. With grated apple, lemon, and honey, it remains a sweet and fragrant childhood memory that comforts me now when I need solace not just for the body, but especially for the spirit. A simple, genuine, and very quick dessert to prepare, I prefer it piping hot, which enhances the scent of cinnamon, to savor spoonful by spoonful, but it’s actually also good cold, creamy, and enveloping. It should be prepared with whole fresh milk, but we can easily cook it with 2% milk to slightly cut down on calories, but since it has no added fats, I suggest using whole milk to fully enjoy its creaminess. We can, if you like, enrich it with dark chocolate chips, divine. If you like these simple dishes, try the savory rice with milk. Let’s get to work and prepare sweet rice with milk and cinnamon together.
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- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Economical
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 4 People
- Cooking methods: Stove
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients for preparing sweet rice with milk and cinnamon
- 4 1/4 cups whole milk
- 1 1/4 cups Carnaroli rice
- 6 tbsps sugar
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- Half lemon peel
- 1 pinch salt
- to taste ground cinnamon
Tools
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- 1 Saucepan
Preparation of sweet rice with milk and cinnamon
To prepare our sweet rice, heat the milk with cinnamon and lemon peel. When it is about to boil, turn off the heat and let it rest for 5 minutes. Strain the milk.
Put the milk back on the stove, add the sugar and bring to a boil again. Add the rice, salt, and cook until the rice is very soft, stirring frequently.
Depending on your taste, you can have it creamier or denser. If the rice absorbs too much milk, you can add more until you achieve the desired consistency. Remember that it will thicken a lot when cooling, so keep that in mind when removing it from the heat. Flavor with ground cinnamon.
Storage
You can store the rice in the fridge for a couple of days.
