Belizean Baked Rice Pudding Food

BAKED RICE PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large pot of boiling water, cook rice for 5 minutes and drain. Rinse under running water and set aside to drain. In a saucepan, combine milk, cream, vanilla, zest and cinnamon. Bring mixture to a boil and stir. Turn off heat and stir in butter and sugar. Let mixture cool for 15 minutes. Add the rice to the milk mixture and pour into a baking dish. Cover with foil and bake about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Stir mixture after 45 minutes. Serve warm.

BAKED RICE PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F with rack in center of oven.
• Butter 4 (6 oz) ramekins.
• Add 1/2 cup milk, 4 tsp rice, 2 tsp sugar, and a pinch of salt to each ramekin.
• Finely grate a little nutmeg over each, then stir to combine.
• Put ramekins in a shallow baking pan and bake until most of milk is absorbed and tops are golden-browned, about 1 hour (a skin will form).
• Cool puddings in ramekins on a rack, about 1 hour.
• Discard skin from top of puddings, then stir 1 TBSP cream into each.
• Puddings can be served at room temperature or chilled.
• If desired, chill puddings, covered, at least 30 minutes.
• **Note: Rice pudding can be chilled up to 3 days before serving.

BELIZEAN BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon.
• Tear bread into pieces and place in large bowl.
• Pour butter over bread, then add both types of milk, vanilla, eggs and water. Mix well.
• Add sugar mixture and mix well with hands. Stir raisins into mixture.
• Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
• Pour mixture into 9x13 pan coated with cooking spray and bake until brown on top.
• NOTE: The original recipe calls for an ungreased 9x12 pan, but it seems to me that a pan coated in cooking spray would be much easier to work with when serving.

BELIZEAN FU-FU (MASHED PLANTAIN)

Steps:

• Plantains are ripe when the skin turns black and they are soft to the touch. Peel the plantain and cut in half. (I've found it easiest to peel by scoring the skin with a knife in several spots before attempting to peel).
• Put plantain in a pot covered with water and boil until soft (I have no idea on the time, will update the recipe after I try it).
• Drain water and mash in pot with a potato masher.
• Add butter and salt as to taste.