Simmered apples baked in rice pudding
4 dessert apples
600ml water
100g sugar
For the rice pudding
85g pudding rice
1 litre whole milk
1 cinnamon stick
a few drops vanilla essence
2tbsp caster sugar
30g unsalted butter
150ml single cream
peel apples, leaving them whole. Put them in a pan with the 100g of sugar and the water .Bring to boil and poach for about 10 minutes, turning them from time to time.They will be slightly soft.
Put rice in a pan with about half the milk, cinnamon stick,vanilla essence and the sugar and bring to boil.Turn down and simmer for about 20 minutes. Add the remaining milk, butter,cream and stir.
Preheat the oven to 175/ gas mark 4. Place the apples in an oven proof dish and pour the rice pudding all around. Bake for about 30 mins. Add more butter and cream if the pudding becomes a little dry, anice golden crust should form……enjoy