This pretty traditional oven-baked rice pudding is a real taste of my childhood, but it has been scaled back to be the perfect size for two people, yet still produces the perfectly creamy pudding.
½teaspoonVanilla Paste(or seeds from 1 small vanilla pod)
Fresh Nutmeggrated)
Butter (to grease the bowl)
Instructions
Grease a 500ml (2 Cup) baking dish with butter.
If you are using a vanilla pod, cut it in half lengthways and scrape out the seeds.
Pour the milk, cream, and sugar into the baking dish, grate in a little fresh nutmeg and add the vanilla seeds. Then give everything a stir to distribute the ingredients evenly and begin to dissolve the sugar.
Add the pudding rice, give everything another stir, then place it in the oven and bake at 170°C or 340°F for 80-90 minutes.
If you don't like the "skin" on the rice pudding, cover the bowl with foil before baking.