Apple Raisins Rice Pudding.

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Hello everybody.

Last night as I was about to turn off the TV the Italian chef Lidea caught my attention making this recipe, rice pudding but with a twist, she added apples and raisins which really looked yummy and rich. Actually I think anything with cinnamon is delicious.

Well today I decided to implement it right away, a nice dessert for my hubby cause he’s on diet, I used skimmed milk, sativa sugar and only a small spoon of butter and cornstarch instead of egg yolks.

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Ingredients and method :
* 4 cups milk.
* 1/2 cup sugar.
* 3 tablespoons cornflour.
*1/4 cup rice.
* 2 large peeled sliced apples.
* 1/2 cup raisins.
* 1 tsp butter.

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* heat 3 cups of milk till warm.
* in the remaining cup dissolve cornflour and sugar well.
* boil rice for 10-15 minutes,drain and cool.
* add rice and cornflour sugar mixture to boiled milk.
*stir well and leave to simmer for 20-25 minutes.
* in a deep baking dish, spread butter then add apples,raisins and cinnamon.
* pour rice milk mixture on top then into a minimum heated oven for 20-30 minutes or till volume reduces.
* serve with vanilla ice cream or fresh cream.

wp-1459173635872.jpg heart warming dish in this rainy day.

 

 

 

 

Pumpkin Soup.

Hello everybody.

What a day!! up very early don’t know why,been on the run till now I even didn’t have time to cook something at all, plus it’s a gloomy rainy day , hate to start a month like this but keep saying tomorrow is a better day 🙂

 

I did pumpkin soup very quickly cause I already have some cooked from yesterday, really good in this cold weather with some baked pitta bread !

It’s easily done just  saute some chopped onions and pumpkin pulp then add salt,pepper,ginger and cinnamon, when done add 4 cups chicken broth or water with 1 cube Maggi and boil for half hour, mix in blender or hand mixer and add some cream or milk  then simmer for 15 minutes.

I’ll make a good meal tomorrow for sure to compensate today’s lousy meal, though nobody at home grumbled and each one managed with a sandwich, till tomorrow then 🙂

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