German
Milchreis (German Rice Pudding)
Milchreis (German Rice Pudding) is German home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup round-grain pudding rice
- 4 cups whole milk
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp cinnamon sugar, for topping
How to cook it
- Combine the rice, milk, sugar, and salt in a heavy-bottomed pot and bring to a gentle boil, stirring often.
- Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the rice is very soft and the mixture has thickened into a creamy pudding.
- Stir in the vanilla and the butter, then remove from the heat.
- Spoon into bowls and dust the cinnamon sugar over the top.
- Serve warm as a simple, light stand-alone dinner, the way German families still serve it to kids on an easy weeknight.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Milchreis (German Rice Pudding), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Milchreis (German Rice Pudding) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Grains and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Milchreis (German Rice Pudding) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on rice and milk.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from Germany.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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