German Baked Rice Pudding With Apples
Reisauflauf is a German style baked rice pudding with apples and raisins and a great hint of vanilla and cinnamon. It's filling, firm, not too sweet and oh, so good. Layered with milk rice that's mixed with beaten eggs and butter after cooking, raisins and apples. Tastes great both warm or cold with vanilla sauce aka. vanilla custard or just like that.
Servings: 7 Servings
Equipment
- Casserole dish (23 x 35 cm (9 x 1 3 inch))
- Hand mixer with whisk
- Medium pot
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vanilla sugar (SEE NOTES)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 kg (2.2 lbs) apples
- 250 g (about 1 1/3 cups) rice pudding or medium grained white rice
- 1 liter (33.8 fl oz/ 4 cups) milk
- a pinch of salt
- 60 g (2.1 oz/ ¼ cup) butter plus extra for greasing
- 3 medium eggs
- about 40 g (about 1.4 oz/) raisins
For the topping
- 2 tablespoons butter cold
- ½ tablespoon bread crumbs
Instructions
- Begin by adding milk, rice, half of the vanilla sugar and a pinch of salt to the pot. Combine well and bring to a boil. After reduce the heat, cover and let simmer for about 20 minutes. Keep stirring in between. After 20 minutes remove the pot from the heat and let cool for about 5 minutes, while still covered.
- In the meantime peel the apples, remove the core and cut them into thin slices. Put the slices into a bowl or any and mix them with ground cinnamon and set aside. Next separate the eggs into two separate bowls. Add a pinch of salt to egg white and beat until light and fluffy. Add sugar (the normal sugar and not the remaining vanilla sugar) and butter to the bowl with egg yolks and beat until creamy. Scoop the cooked and cooled milk rice to the egg yolk - butter and sugar mixture and mix well. Then fold in egg whites. Next preheat the oven to 180 ° C (356 °F), with both top and bottom heat.
- Start and end with rice mixture. In a greased casserole dish add a layer of rice mixture. Then scatter cinnamon apple slices on top. Sprinkle with half of the remaining vanilla sugar and half of the raisins. Repeat the process until you have used up all the rice and apples. Sprinkle with bread crumbs over the top. Using your hands break the chilled butter into small pieces and scatter them on top as well and bake for about 45 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes and enjoy.
Notes
- This recipe calls for vanilla sugar, but feel free to use about 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Just bear in mind to use 4 tablespoons regular sugar instead of 2 tablespoons as provided in the recipe.
- If kids won't be joining you, soak the raisins in rum while the rice is cooking.
- I've used apples to make this German baked rice pudding. The juice from the apples makes the pudding not to be too dry. But feel free to use other fruits of your choice like drained canned sour cherries preserved in water, plums or even peaches if you like.