All the flavours of the world can be found in the WUR community. Bachelor’s student of Environmental Sciences Laura Sólveig Lefort Scheefer (21) takes us to her home country, Iceland.
‘Grjónagrautur is a traditional Icelandic rice pudding made from rice mixed with water, milk, cinnamon and raisins. It is usually served with cold slátur, a type of Icelandic liver sausage. The dish is popular in wintertime and around Christmas.’
Ingredients (for two servings)
For the pudding:
- 1 cup of rice (I recommend using risotto rice, pudding rice or another short-grain white rice)
- A little cooking oil
- 2 cups of water
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 2 cups of milk (normally full fat milk but I personally love it with oat milk – any kind of milk you like works!)
- 2 handfuls of raisins (optional but highly recommended)
For the cinnamon-sugar topping:
- 4 tablespoons of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat a little oil into a pan
- Add the rice and then the water
- Boil and keep stirring (it burns easily) until it looks like thick rice pudding
- Add the milk and let it go on simmering
- Add the raisins in once you can see the rice well through the milk
- Continue stirring until most of the liquid is gone and it looks like pudding
- Turn the heat off and let it stand for a few minutes
- Prepare the topping by mixing the two ingredients in a bowl
- Optional: for a healthier version, skip the sugar and go for the cinnamon!
- Also optional: pour some fresh milk over the pudding
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