Verviers rice cake

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Veviers is a city of the Belgian province of Liege. Rice cake is a typical dessert in this Belgian region. The recipe I present today is the way they do the cake in Verviers.

The origin of this recipe is unknown, what is clear is that in the 17 th century this cake was largely eaten in Verviers.

It must be made with round and short rice, and you can eat it heat or cold, as you prefer.
It is said that the good rice cake must have a slimy consistency.

You must remember that the filling of this cake must be prepared in advance because it needs to stand for 24 hours.

Ingredients (24 cm de diameter oven dish):

•   1 l hole milk.
•   135 grams round rice.
•   185 grams sugar.
•   1 cinnamon stick.
•   1 block of shortcrust pastry.
•   2 eggs.
•   Butter and flour  to brush the oven dish.

Method:

1-   Make the filling the previous day; put milk in a saucepan at high heat, once it reaches boiling point , set at low heat and put rice and cinnamon inside the saucepan.
Cook for 1 hour.

2-   Add sugar to the saucepan and let cook for an additional half an hour.

3-   Let cool and keep in the fridge for 12 to 24 hours.
This is the result after 24 hours in the fridge:

4-   Add an egg to the rice and mix well with your hands.

5-   Take an ovenproof dish of 24 cm diameter, rub butter over the Surface of the dish and sprinkle with flour, put the block of shortcrust pastry all over the oven dish, prick the pastry with a fork.

(If you have enough time it is better to prepare shortcrust pastry by yoursekf, here is the recipe I used: Pastel de nueces de macadamia).

6-   Pour rice over the shortcrust pastry.

7-   Take the other egg, separate egg yolk from white, take the yolk and paint the surface of the cake.

8-   Preheat oven to 240 ºC , cook the cake during 25 minutes at the same temperatura, heat up and down. The last five minutes use only the grill.

My Comments to the Recipe

If you like rice pudding, this is tour dessert, for me it was delicious.
You can eat it cold or heat, accompanied by a cup of coffee. Belgian people suggest that the cake must be slimy, my cake wasn't so slimy, I should have cooked the rice for less time.

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